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 these? — ...

We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files and can’t open them. What’s going on? Is there a utility that can extract the attachments from these? When Outlook or Outlook Express users send ...

We’ve all seen mysterious .dat file attachments in our inboxes from time to time. In most cases the .dat attachment originates in Microsoft Outlook, which produces outgoing messages using a slightly ...

Many times when receiving mail attachments with the new Exchange-enabled Microsoft Entourage v.X from Windows users, you will get a winmail.dat file that is inaccessible under Mac OS X. Alan Sill ...

Q. I sometimes receive e-mail messages with a “winmail.dat” file attached that I cannot open. Why does this happen, and what can I do to fix it? A. The winmail.dat file usually appears because various ...

I am having a problem trying to get IIS 6.0 to serve several .exe files and a .dat file. <BR><BR>The files are hosted in a virtual directory, with "scripts and executables" allowed, directory browsing ...

I have a client who has a DVR security system that runs using a program on a computer called Jwin Sheriff. The Jwin company is a joke, they make crap and they don't support it. I can't get through to ...

DAT files are files with an extension that isn't associated with a specific application or program and can be almost any type of file including video, media or text. Gaining access to the DAT files ...

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 ...