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

[Ross Algie]

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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