These are TNEF stream files, encoded by Microsoft Exchange mail servers or 
Microsoft Outlook mail clients on Windows.

TNEF's Enough for the Mac (a Carbonized app) will decode them, in my 
experience.

<http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/>


 From the TNEF's Enough Web page:

"The file is a rich text (or MAPI) message that is sent from Outlook to 
Exchange. When Exchange sends the message to an outside server it writes 
the MAPI message as a MIME attachment. The unfortunate side effect of this 
plan is if the Outlook user has someone in their address book as a person 
who can receive 'Rich Text' then the user will receive the TNEF file 
whether the user uses Outlook or not."

HTH.


On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 05:15  PM, Greg T. Vincent wrote:

> I occasionally get e-mails with a "winmail.dat" attachment that I cannot
> open. What is this and what do I need to open this document.
> I am Using Entourage X.
> Thank you,
> Greg


--
Jeremy Reichman
Software Specialist III / Instructor
Customer Support Services
Information & Technology Services
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York, USA


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