Opening Mail attachments

I have received an attachment on my MacBook Pro Mail program which is a file designated winmail.dat.
How do I open it?
Many thanks

Maybe some help here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11778
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4906
Hope this helps

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