How do i open winmail.dat attachments in mail

How do i open winmail.dat attachments in mail ?

Having problems with Winmail.dat attachments?  This is really Windows problem but their hubris will not allow them to admit it. 
Windows does have a global fix for this problem but it is not a general patch - in their KB there is a fix for Exchange servers which cause the winmail.dat problem but most users don't know about it or have it implemented. 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053http://
Here is a solution that Apple users can get for $30.  An Austrian program and APP called Letter Opener http://www.creativeinaustria.com/http:// is the solution to seamlessly opening Winmail.dat files. 

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  • How do I open winmail.dat attachments

    When receiving a winmail.dat attachment I am unable to open it.

    You could try the LookOut! add-on.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lookout/
    It appears not to have been updated recently, but there are recent comments suggesting it is still functional.
    There are some standalone tools for converting these files, e.g.
    http://www.winmail-dat.com/
    and I think you will be able to find some on-line converters too.
    You might also want to tell your correspondents that their attachments are of no use to you, and direct them to this article:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061

  • How do I open Winmail.dat?

    How do I open Winmail.dat?

    ajlayne wrote:
    In Outlook, I changed the setting for how the mail sent to each typoe to resolve the issue. I created one email per setting and addressed to both people on their corporate exchange account (same server for both) and their gmail accounts. This is where the confusion arose since one phone receives fine and the other doesn't. I used Gmail as an alternate mail client with the same result.
    So basically I used two different clients each time sending to four addresses two are located on each phone. Phone A always receives a winmail.dat file no matter which client or email address is used. Phone B always receives the attachment in it's correct format.
    I took it a step further and used the phones to test sending. Even if I use Phone A to send to the other account on Phone A, winmail.dat is received. If done from Phone B to Phone A, Phone A winmail.dat persists. Phone A to Phone B correct format is received. I'm thinking there is a setting somewhere on Phone A I'm not aware of that was somehow changed since it is not mail client dependant nor recipient mail server dependant based on the testing results.
    This is a Microsoft Windows setting with Microsoft Outlook or within the Exchange Server gateway in general.   These winmail.dat files have been arriving on Linux, BSD, OS X, Tru64 Unix, ULTRIX, Solaris and many other servers for many years, too — unfortunately, everybody that's using non-Microsoft clients and tools encounters these files from time to time.  The winmail.dat is a Windows Mail data file, after all.
    If the mail client or if the mail server gateway sends a mail message to an iOS device — or many other "foreign" mail clients — that involves a winmail.dat file generated by the sending client or generated by the originating mail server gateway, then iOS will show the winmail.dat file.  Like many other mail clients, the iOS mail client does not decode, process nor create these winmail.dat files.  (Most clients simply treat these winmail.dat files as an arbitrary attachment on the message.)
    Send the same messages to the same email addresses and read those messages via another mail client — one that doesn't have winmail.dat support — and you'll see the exact same behavior; a wad of attached winmail.dat data.
    From Microsoft: How to Prevent the Winmail.dat File from Being Sent to Internet Users.  In short, either the Outlook client settings or the Exchange Server (IMC) settings will need to be changed here.

  • How to open winmail.dat attachments???

    Hi, this is my first use of this discussion forum, so here goes: Can anyone tell me how to open attachments I am sent on a regular basis that are winmail.dat attachments???

    Search Google for "winmail.dat mac" and you'll find many solutions
    Also note that this forum is for troubleshooting Apple Software Update for Windows, a software package for Windows designed to update Apple products that run on Windows, and not related to your issue, so you should really post search/post your question in the Mac OS X forums

  • How can i open WINMAIL.DAT attached to e-mails ???

    Hi,
    anybody knows how to open attached WINMAIL.DAT in e-mails (Yosemite 10.10.3)
    Thanks.

    See the suggestion by thomas_r.
    Get a copy of TNEF
    HOW TO OPEN WINDAT FILES

  • How can I get Mac mail to open winmail.dat attachments on lion 10.7.3

    How can I get Mac mail to open letter attachments winmail.dat??   (Lion 10.7.3) Any help appreciated...

    Sorry peterskine,
    it's true in part. There's more then one article on the subject "Recipients receive a winmail.dat attachment":
    http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook-help/recipients-receive-a-winmail-dat- attachment-HA010153018.aspx?CTT=1
    The odd thing is that my colleague and me use the same release mountain lion and we received the same email from someone on Outlook2007. He received the mail with the attachment, whilst I saw a "Winmail.dat". It already happened to me on snow-leopard, some month ago. Up til today I don't know what the difference between our machines is.
    But it is interesting: the same OS, the same mail-clients (Apple Mail) and still different results.
    Note: on my machine it used to work properly. It just suddenly happened that I started to receive winmail.dat files in stead of proper attachments.
    When I have more time on hand, I cant try to find out why this happens.

  • Opening Winmail.dat files in Mail on iPad (Ms Windows Word, Excel, Ppt)

    I thought I'd share my findings on what to do if your Word, Excel, Powerpoint attachments come into your Mail as winmail.dat files. In my experience I downloaded the following Apps:
      Pages
      Numbers
      DocsToGo
    WinMailViewer
      Letter Opener
    To open the winmail.dat file hold the icon until asked how you want to open the file: WinMailViewer or Letter Opener (assuming you've previously downloaded both Apps).
    WinMailViewer is exactly what it says ... a 'viewer' of the file.  The file is sent to the relevant App which you subsequently open to see a list of the files.
    Letter Opener will bring up the attachment(s) in a separate window and gives you choices on which App you'd like to use to open or view the file with. Depending on what Apps you've previously downloaded:
      For Excel it might list: Quick Look, DocsToGo, Csv File Editor, PDFReaderLite
      For Word, it might list: Pages, DocsToGo, PDFReaderLite
    DocsToGo is an excellent option for working on Word, Excel files (N.B. If you have a big Excel file with 'frozen' window panes, I recommend clicking on the 4th tool (bottom toolbar) UnFreezing the panes while you work or move around the file as I haven't figured how to work with it on!!)
    Pages is the best option to use for editing Word files.
    Numbers is probably the best option to use for editing Excel files.
    Csv File Editor is another Excel editing option.
    I hope that helps.

    I should further say the files I sent are .xlsx and .docx files.  They look fine my end and I send such files all the time without problems.
    However, I did try to cheat by going in via the Safari onto my 'live' online email account and the Safari automatically transfers them to winmail.dat files with the same result.
    Ahh - have just been on using my PC this time and you are right, it seems that the service provider does the transfer and then when my outlook opens the file (on the PC), it must reconvert to .xlsx etc again.
    Very strange.
    Ergo, I guess the question should be how I open wimail.dat files ??

  • How to disallow opening in-line attachments in Mail?

    I have received some junk mail with an in-line attachment (therefore opened) which bears no relationship to the text of the junk; for example an image which no-one would find funny, beautiful etc. Suspicious. I'm thinking of a Word macro (perhaps now protected against by the OS), an image with some buried code, etc.
    How can I instruct Mail to display attachments as a list of files which I can choose not to open?
    Thanks

    Mail>Preferences>View>uncheck Display  remote images
    If that doesn't do it for you, tale a look at the Plug-in for Mail:  Attachment Tamer

  • Opening  winmail.dat files

    How can I open winmail.dat files on a mac osx 10.4.4?
    Thank you Ron

    The Apple Mail Plug-in OMiC process this Microsoft Outlook winmail.dat files.

  • I recently purchased an Iphone 6plus and I am receiving pdf attachments that are shown as winmail.dat attachments on the phone. When I check e-mail via  my macbook pro the attachment is a pdf and I can open it. Why is this happening?

    I recently purchased an Iphone 6plus and I am receiving pdf attachments that are shown as winmail.dat attachments on the iphone. When I check the same e-mail on my macbook pro the attachment is a pdf and I can open it. Why is this happening?

    I had this problem too after i upgdatd to OS X Mavericks... only the songs on my iphone 5s that i purchased from itunes would play.
    i read something about it being a syncing issue. when you plug your phone into your computer with the usb cable, the person said to switch from automatic syncing of itunes to the "manual" option. mine was already set to manual so i wasn't sure anything would work. BUT, when i plugged my phone into my computer, it started to sync all of my music on my phone again (top of itunes bar where song playing/time is listed said "now syncing 123/534 songs to x's iphone"). once that was completed, i checked the music app on my iphone and everything was back to normal!
    so, i would suggest setting your music syncing settings to manual if you haven't tried that yet!
    hope this helps!

  • Question:  how to read winmail.dat attachments from others

    Based on a recommendation from an AppleCare rep, I downloaded "TNEF's Enough" so I could read winmail.dat attachments from others.  It won't work and when I called again, I was told AppleCare doesn't support third party apps.  How do I activate it?  I tried double clicking on it and nothing happened.

    http://www.joshjacob.com/mac-development/tnef.php

  • Open winmail.dat files?

    Anyone know how to open winmail.dat files?  I've been getting email attachments which I can't open on my MBP. 

    Hi ,
    The person that is sending you emails, has chosen in Outlook, to use the RTF format, for emailing and or specifically for emailing you. Perhaps this is default Outlook behavior at times.
    This results in the winmail.dat file, which is the RTF format, of the attachments that were intended for you.
    If the user would configure Outlook, to use the HTML (web)  format, for emails, then you would receive the attachments as intended. As well as anybody else.
    Apple mail and other mail systems, do not understand the RTF (rich text) format, and probably have to pay Microsoft licensing fees, to be able to use this format.
    The options, for setting this in Outlook, differ for different versions of Outlook, but are found generally under
    Tools > Address book, for setting a specific person to , use HTML format, and not RTF format, that persons email.
    Also, under "Tools" > "Options", > "Mail format", for setting that all emails, will use the HTML format, instead of the RTF format.
    More info
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061

  • Winmail.dat Attachments are received whether TNEF is disabled or not

    Hi,
    we've got some issues when sending emails to some linux recipients, that attachments or s/mime signed emails are converted to the dreaded winmail.dat attachements. 
    On Exchange 2010 i've just configured the corresponding remote domain (or the default one) to disable TNEF sending to this mail domain.
    Apparently with Exchange 2013 this setting does not work anymore. With setting the parameter "TNEFenabled" to $false, the recipients still get winmail.dat attachments.
    do you have any idea how to work this out?
    Kind regards,
    Peter

    Hi,
    attached you will find the headers of an email which got that issue.
    Return-Path: <[email protected]>
    X-Original-To: [email protected]
    Delivered-To: [email protected]
    X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender
    X-No-Relay: not in my network
    Received: from DOX13FE02.hex2013.com (DOX13FE02.hex2013.com [128.127.69.77])
    by web31.dogado.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 507B122E53F2
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    Received: from DOX13BE03.hex2013.com (2a02:a60:0:2013:d4c5:1b5b:26da:54e0) by
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    DOX13BE01.hex2013.com ([fe80::4aa:2b19:10bb:b3ff%14]) with mapi id
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    From: Peter Stutzinger <[email protected]>
    To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
    Subject: TNEF Testmail
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    Accept-Language: en-US, de-DE
    Content-Language: de-DE
    X-MS-Has-Attach: yes
    X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: <[email protected]>
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    X-Originating-IP: [128.127.69.74]
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  • Winmail.dat attachments

    We are running a Tiger Server for our mail service, several of our business clients keep on sending us winmail.dat attachments, I know why these are generated and that my users can use TNEFenough but they're irritated by the whole situation !! mutterings about using PCs (I think crap) ! is there anything I can do at the mail Server to remove this encoding so that my users receive ordinary attachments ? the senders aren't interested in resolving what to them isn;t a problem !

    Changing anything with Outlook in this regard affects messages sent with Outlook only, not with messages sent by the iPhone's Mail client. And if you are sending messages with your Exchange account using the Exchange SMTP server with the iPhone's Mail client, changing your Gmail account settings won't have any affect on this.
    Are you sending messages with your Exchange account and SMTP server, or with your Gmail account and SMTP server?
    I'm not sure how an ATT######.dat file is included when not using AT&T's SMTP server to send the message - the message is being sent by the Exchange SMTP server, but I'm not sure how such a file would be included regardless.
    If you are also accessing your Gmail account with the iPhone's Mail client, does the same occur when sending messages with your Gmail account and SMTP server?
    If not, the problem lies with the SMTP server used to send messages with your Exchange account or at the Exchange server.

  • Can't open "winmail.dat"

    Hi!
    I'm need help to open winmail.dat. "Ytnef" not working. The thunderbird plugin "lookout" not working too...I choose "winmail.dat" at attachments, "open" and nothing is going on there.
    Are anybody solved such problem?

    The Apple Mail Plug-in OMiC open winmail.dat files.

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