From: Jerry Walsh (jerry at domain aardvark.ie)
Date: Thu 07 Jun 2001 - 14:08:22 IST
winmail.dat is normally a TNEF encoded attachment,
there's a few utilities to decode them around the net
one of which is fentun:
Download, install run:
fentun winmail.dat
It can also as Kate pointed out contain just the formatting
of the mail.
Jerry.
At 14:02 07/06/01 +0100, Liam Bedford wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:59:56PM +0100, John P. Looney came forth with:
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:51:34PM +0100, Eamonn Shinners mentioned:
> > > OK Guys,
> > > another one related to people who insist on sending me stuff
> using M$
> > > related products. I have attachments arriving, which are just called
> > > winmail.dat, now I know that these things are either .doc or .xls files.
> >
> > I think winmail.dat is just formatting info about the mail - stuff like
> > font colours etc. I'm 90% sure it can be ignored.
>nope.. outlook encapsulates all the attachments into winmail.dat..
>
>I think the tnef stuff will decode it?
>
>L.
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