On Wednesday 08 November 2006 06:42, Clayton wrote:
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows?
winmail.dat files are created by MS Outlook and contain something called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format. Basically it's MS's attempt at using nonstandard formats to try and preserve formatting and font styles in the email.
YMMV, but you should be able to simply ignore them. They are irrelevant and contain no data of interest other than font styles and colors etc.
Don't believe this is entirely true. I have received winmail.dat files from folks using Outlook that contained photo attachments... and photos that I dearly wanted to see.