I was confused by your answer regarding winmail.dat. The file cannot be opened traditionally, at least to obtain what the receiver believes to be valuable contents. Rather, it’s used internally by ...

Many times when receiving mail attachments with the new Exchange-enabled Microsoft Entourage v.X from Windows users, you will get a winmail.dat file that is inaccessible under Mac OS X. Alan Sill ...

We’ve all seen mysterious .dat file attachments in our inboxes from time to time. In most cases the .dat attachment originates in Microsoft Outlook, which produces outgoing messages using a slightly ...

If you’re in a situation where Microsoft Outlook and your Outlook Data Files are not opening, and we’re talking about the .pst and .ost files, then there’s an ...

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on how to open winmail.dat files We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files, and can’t open them. What’s going on? Is there a utility ...