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 ...

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 ...

We just switched out SMTP Proxy from our Watchguard Firewall to our Meridius SPAM Filter and so far it is working a lot better. We are getting some complaints that winmail.dat files are being stripped ...

Q: I'm part of a group of 80 people who every week receive an e-mail with an Adobe PDF file attachment. But when I receive the e-mail, the PDF has been converted to a Winmail.dat file that my e-mail ...

QSome of my buddies' e-mails show up with an unopenable attachment called "winmail.dat." Am I at fault, or are my friends? AYou can blame your pals, but the responsibility properly falls on Microsoft, ...

Q: When I send an attached PDF, some recipients say they cannot open the attachment. I use O360 Outlook to send from a desktop with Windows 10. I sent a test email to myself to see how my Samsung S7 ...

I've got a few users that are now reporting that emails being sent out are showing up as winmail.dat attachments. This had been fine, and we switched over to Office 365 recently (in the last month), ...

We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files and can’t open them. What’s going on? Is there a utility that can extract the attachments from these? When Outlook or Outlook Express users send ...