.dat on Mac?

belgianpete · #1 January 10th, 2006, 09:10 PM

Is there some kind of application that opens winmail.dat on macintosh OSX please?

Big Jim · #2 January 11th, 2006, 05:25 PM

Hi Pete,

Hope this helps:

TIP of the day: decoding winmail.dat attachments.
January 5, 2006

Q: Markus Lange asked us about a problem receiving email attachments from some Windows users:

I work as a translator with Word 2004 for Mac OS X version 11.2 (050714) and have many customers using MS-Word. Up to now there were but a few compatibility problems. But now, I suddenly get MS-Word files send to me by MS-machines in MS-Word as "winmail.dat" files which my Word version or any other program I have can't read.

A: Email attachments sent from Outlook for Windows through Exchange Server will sometimes show up as a "winmail.dat" file in Mac users' inboxes. The actual attachment is wrapped up inside the winmail.dat file, which the Mac can't decode.

At least, not without TNEF's Enough, a free utility by developer Josh Jacob that can decode the winmail.dat file and extract the actual attachment. Jacob offers versions for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.

http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/