MaXxX wrote: > I've recently been conversing with a friend of mine, who uses MS > Outlook. All of his messages have an attachment called "winmail.dat", > but, knowing that Outlook might be attaching weird files for its own > evil reasons, I ignored it.
<snip> > So, my question: is it The Bat that fails to recognize an accepted > standard for sending attachments, or (more likely, I know) does > Outlook send weird things? And even if it does, how the heck can I pry > the darned thing open?? As you suspected, Outlook sends weird stuff. Some information and solutions (including a link to a decoder) can be found at: http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm -- George Using TB! 2.01.3 on Windows XP Pro 5.1, Build 2600, Service Pack 1. ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.01.7 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html