Rants & Ramblings & Other Rubbish

The winmail.dat dilema

Previously, when receiving an email from an Outlook user with an attached winmail.dat file, I'd either ask for a "resend" if I was somewhat interested, or it would go in the "round-file".

Today, I had to fix the problem for somebody else. Generally, requesting the attachment in a different format is more trouble than it's worth. A little Googl'ing was very helpful. I came up w/ multiple solutions.

The first, is a website www.winmaildat.com is a service; save the file, go to the website, upload the file and you will be provided with the attachment to save. The other option, is at www.fentun.com which is even more interesting as it provides solutions for both Windows and Linux. I can attest to the fact that the Linux static version works very well, the Windows option still remains to be tested, but I'm hopeful....