Cannot open e-mail attachments

This is my first Apple and I am still learning, but, why canI not open attachments in e-mails sent to me? I can not open ANY pictures or short video clips and sometimes they have a "winmail.dat" file that will not open. I appreciate any help you guys have to offer...

It sounds like you may primarily be getting these messages with attachments from someone sitting behind a MS Exchange Server, and that Exchange Server is using a certain setting discussed at the link below:
http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/
Let us know if this is related, and will help you resolve, or at least explain this.
Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNEF
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