Outlook sometimes sends e-mail attachments encapsulated in a file named "winmail.dat". It would be nice to be able to extract the attachments from "winmail.dat". Want to back this issue? Post a bounty ...

Q: For the past two weeks I've been getting a full-screen "internet security alert" on my Windows PC. It's red with a white box in the middle displaying the error ...

winmail.dat. Does reading those words give you the beginnings of heartburn? Those who regularly trade email with Windows users are all too familiar with winmail.dat files, which are email attachments ...

I've got a few users that are now reporting that emails being sent out are showing up as winmail.dat attachments. This had been fine, and we switched over to Office 365 recently (in the last month), ...

Q: I'd like to synchronize the information on my desktop and laptop computers so that they both have the same photos, music files, documents and e-mail. What's the best way to do that? A: You have two ...

Mac OS X may be the greatest operating system in the world, but somehow that news hasn’t reached most of the planet. The sad fact is that most of us are surrounded by Windows PCs. And while it’s ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is an excerpt from Mac Annoyances , by John Rizzo (2004; reprinted by permission of O’Reilly Media). I can’t think of any technological innovation that has more potential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hi, all. Here's the skinny. I have been told that I can no longer waste my time maintaining the computers in my office; I have too much real work to do.<P>What this <I>means</I> is I will still waste ...