Comments on: Why am I getting Winmail.dat files on my mac from Windows users?

By: NinjaAdmin

NinjaAdmin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:35:22 +0000

Just found out:

On the exchange server, go to global settings, Internet Message Formats, Default Properties, Advanced tab, for “Exchange Rich-Text Format” select “Never Use”.

This will prevent your Exchange server from using Rich-Text Format and creating winmail.dat files.

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:43:51 +0000

No problemo! Let us know how it goes.

By: fastbullet

fastbullet — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:35:38 +0000

Only now did I get back here to find the link you left, Karl. I hope you didn’t think I’d lost interest or was too ignorant to respond.
I’ll give this little gem a try and let everyone know about the results.

I appreciate you taking the time to hunt this down.

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:44:26 +0000

Try this one:

http://www.broobles.com/eml2mbox/

By: fastbullet

fastbullet — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:01:50 +0000

TYVM !!

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:51:30 +0000

Let me take a look around for you FastBullet!

By: fastbullet

fastbullet — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:10:38 +0000

More recently than the above, I have begun to get Email attachments in a .eml format that my Linux computer won’t open. It turns out that this is another brilliant MS idea that seems to originate in Outlook and is seemingly only something that Outlook handles.

My solution, so far, has been either to send the Email back to where it came from or simply delete it, unopened.

Has anyone discovered a Linux-compatible app for this crap?

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:34:00 +0000

Good read thanks for the info

By: Shawn T Lippert

Shawn T Lippert — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:34:00 +0000

Good read thanks for the info

By: Unknown

Unknown — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:43:00 +0000

The most convenient winmail.dat decoder for Windows is http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/” “>http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/” REL=”nofollow”>Winmail Opener

By: Unknown

Unknown — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:43:00 +0000

The most convenient winmail.dat decoder for Windows is http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/” “>http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/” REL=”nofollow”>Winmail Opener

By: llx

llx — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:44:00 +0000

The most convenient winmail.dat decoder for Windows is Winmail Opener

By: llx

llx — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:43:00 +0000

The most convenient winmail.dat decoder for Windows is Winmail Opener

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:47:00 +0000

You can also try the Mail.app Plug-in OMiC from http://www.restoroot.com” “>http://www.restoroot.com” REL=”nofollow”> “>http://www.restoroot.com “> “>http://www.restoroot.com to work with winmail.dat files

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:47:00 +0000

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:47:00 +0000

You can also try the Mail.app Plug-in OMiC from http://www.restoroot.com to work with winmail.dat files

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:19:00 +0000

Ha How has MS survived this long? By doing things just like this that makes people either run away screaming from MS or say lets just use all MS products and keep our fingers crossed that they play nicely…

I am really starting to love UBUNTU!

By: Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:19:00 +0000

I am really starting to love UBUNTU!

By: The Slothman

The Slothman — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:38:00 +0000

PS: Here's an official release from IBM/Lotus on this.

Fix to TNEF

You'll notice they mention the same stuff I do, as I originally got the info from their forums.

PS: I don't run that release/fix of Notes so I don't have that ability to fix the problem on the fly.

By: The Slothman

The Slothman — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:34:00 +0000

This problem also exists in Lotus Notes.

Here is the fix we used here for Lotus Notes to be able to open the Winmail.dat files.

Lotus Notes Fix

Also, there is a couple third party tools, that are free for the most part.

Fentun

WMDECODE

I've found that the Lotus Notes fix above does not always extract the attachment, so I have to try Fentun or WMDECODE. One of those tools will inevitably extract the attachments that are contained within the winmail.dat file.

I forgot to mention that I despise the audacity of MS to create this file because it ASSUMES that Outlook, or Outlook Express is on the other end, basically telling all other mail programs to go 'F' themselves.