Annoying winmail.dat attachments – a two minute fix
Recently I’ve been receiving more and more emails that, instead of having normal attachments, have a file called winmail.dat. This is apparently Microsoft thinking they don’t have to conform to standards, and can send things in whatever format they like instead of a format that can be read by all mail clients.
Luckily there are quick ways to extract the files from winmail.dat.
The secure way is with a little program called TNEF. It’s free and can be downloaded from here.
Alternatively if it’s not that private, a guy called Balázs Bárány has made a nice little page that lets your winmail.dat file, and then let you download the files that are hidden within. It can be found here. I just went through the process in 25 seconds. Not a bad fix until Microsoft plays nice with their mail standards.
