Sometimes Apple Mail users get emails from Outlook users in which the attachments appear as winmail.dat files. Not helpful.

This happens when the email passes through a Microsoft Exchange server and you are set in the Outlook user’s contacts as someone who can receive messages in “Rich Text”.

You can ask the user to change your settings in their contacts, but walking them through that on the phone often takes ten times longer than decoding the offending attachment yourself.

TNEF’s Enough is a utility that can decode these attachments. Simply save the winmail.dat file to the Desktop, launch TNEF’s Enough and open the winmail.dat file from the utility’s File menu. TNEF’s Enough works its magic, and you get a readable attachment.

TNEF’s Enough is freeware and available from the developer’s web site.

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Tags: Apple Mail, outlook, TNEF's Enough, winmail.dat

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