Winmail

[djtdjt]

How do i open a winmail.dat attachment on an email i recieved?

[ChuckFickens]

Ask the person sending you the emails with the winmail.dat attachment to stop sending you emails in rich text format and send them in plain text format instead.

winmail.dat is created by outlook when mails are composed in rich text format, but outlook is the only mail client in the world that uses that file, so if an outlook user sends a rich text mail to a non-outlook user you end up with that file that you can't do anything with.

It's nothing you can do your end (unless you start using outlook)

[pauln90]

Or you could download a winmail.dat reader

eg

http://download.cnet.com/Winmail-Reader/3000-2 369_4-10578231.html

[johnpol179]

you have to download thewindmail .dat reader so that you can open the files in the correct format.

otherwise send the request to send mails in text format.

for more information you can avail at the source at
http://www.iyogi.co.uk

[djtdjt]

Hi, Thanks for the info, i'm not very good at this computer stuff! I use a friends PC or the library one, if i download a winmail reader can i un-download it? or does it stay on the computer? Thanks.