Why some emails come with winmail.dat files attached and what to do about it.
Ok, so this is a bit of a different topic for this board, but I have wondered about this for a while. WHY is it that I get those little 'winmail.dat' files on some emails, and of course, .dat extensions are not necessarily ones that you should mess with.
Well here's the answer, and the good news is, the sender gets to deal with it.
The main culprit is Microsoft email products (or perhaps some product using a Microsoft exchange server) that has coding that is unreadable by non-Microsoft products.
So if you get a winmail.dat file on an email from a someone, find out if you are supposed to receive the attachment before you open it, and if they never knowingly sent it, send them the link above to fix it.