On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote: > 1) I received an attachment today. I know what it is, a contract from > a local hotel. The attachment is called <winmail.dat (25.1KB)> > > What is winmail?
I've had this problem before, and here's what I found out, WINMAIL.DAT is a proprietary Microsoft Outlook file that allows Outlook users to send Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) information. This TNEF information is unopenable and irrelevant outside of Outlook. There's a Microsoft support document discussing this. <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q241538> If the information is only contained in the WINMAIL.DAT file and is not also in a plain text alternative, or an html attachment, then their e-mail program is configured wrong. Not even all Windows users can read these files. If a business were sending me contract information in this format, I would request they re-send it in a format that's more accessible. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
