Hello Alto, > today I received a message with an attachment winmail.dat. Isn't > TheBat supposed to be able to decode this file by itself? I don't > remember having seen one of those for ages. > > The message was a reading confirmation generated by Outlook 2010.
Exactly the same happened to me last Saturday and also with a reading confirmation, I don't know if generated by Outlook 2010 though. As you can see in my signature I use TB v4.2.44.2 and I had not had any problem with winmail.dat attachments (which many times contain the actual message text) in a long time. Curious about what could be the problem I installed 'Winmail Opener 1.3' which I still had from the days when TB could not decode them, and, surprise surprise, it would freeze when trying to decode the winmail.dat attachment. As I don't give up easily, I went to the Winmail Opener website and downloaded the latest version, 1.4 updated in Dec. 2011. This version can open and (apparently) decode the winmail.dat I received. It shows: Subject: N/A From: N/A and what should be the message text is just blank. However, if I view source in TB, it doesn't look like the winmail.dat is empty. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v4.2.44.2 on Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 3 My photos at: http://www.Rancho-K.com My photoblog: http://mau.aminus3.com ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.0.36.3 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
