[Year 12 IT Apps] How to open winmail.dat attachments

[Trish Cotter]

Thankyou Ross.
I too have chosen to use a web based email client and not use Outlook.
I suggested that outlook uses go to the following website
http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml

This instructs them how to do exactly what you have emailed here, however, I've also given up on
that happening and have installed the fix (that was posted today). Whilst I don't have a problem
with anyone using Outlook, I do find it frustratrating if one has decided not to use it and is
therefore unable to share/open etc. Is that discrimination???
-- 
Regards,
Trish Cotter
Koonung Secondary College
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tcotter at koonung.vic.edu.au

On Fri, July 27, 2007 3:42 pm, Ross Algie wrote:
> Hi All!
> This has been an on-going saga now for several years. Various fixes -
> usually the suggestion that the recipient downloads a third-party
> program and 'translates' the win.dat file - or posts to a website to
> have a 'fix' applied have been suggested.
> Again; I simply suggest that people who like to use Outlook can
> simply open 'Tools' [Menubar obviously], select Options, choose the
> "Mail Format' tab and select Plain Text from the drop down list (or
> indeed RTF). Outlook's default is html, and this is what makes the
> file unreadable in a standard mail client.
> This seems to me to be a simple and straight forward solution - but I
> have been howled down before.
> These days I just delete any mail with a win.dat format because I don't care.
> Regards and thanks to the list for all the (other) great stuff.
> RA
>
> At 10:28 AM 27/07/2007, you wrote:
>>Like a number of others on this list, I have been a bit frustrated when
>>people have included good-sounding attchments but then I find the only
>>attachment is a file called winmail.dat which doesn't seem to open on my
>>machine.
>>
>>A little research shows the winmail.dat was created when the sender was
>>using Outlook, which I don't use or want to.
>>
>>A little more digging found a free program called Winmail Reader that
>>neatly solves the problem. You can download it from
>>
>>http://www.kopf.com.br/winmail/
>>
>>Good luck,
>>
>>Jeff Kerry
>>Corio Bay Senior College.
>>
>>
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