What is the deal with those winmail. dat files? I get them in my email all the time, and nothing seems to be able to open them.

Q: Most of my e-mails from work come with winmail attachments. I have tried to open these files through multiple different programs, without success, on iPhone iPad, and my PC. How can I open ...

I was confused by your answer regarding winmail.dat. The file cannot be opened traditionally, at least to obtain what the receiver believes to be valuable contents. Rather, it's used internally by ...

That could be harmful to the computer and the operating system. Q: I have received an email with an attachment called winmail.dat that I am unable to open. Can you tell me how to access this file?

When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...