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 ...

I HATE winmail.dat files but have to deal with them every so often because we are still running Lotus Domino/Notes. I actually found a freeware utility that lets you open them and extract the ...

If your e-mail program does not support this particular blend of RTF, you’ll end up with that danged .dat attachment–and no easy way to open it. You have a couple of options.

That could be harmful to the computer and the operating system. Q: I have received an email with an attachment called winmail.dat that I am unable to open. Can you tell me how to access this file?

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?