On occasion you may receive a strange attachment in your email called Winmail.dat. When you try to open it Windows will not let you, and the person sending it to you has no idea what it is. Do not ...

Q. I sometimes receive e-mail messages with a “winmail.dat” file attached that I cannot open. Why does this happen, and what can I do to fix it? A. The winmail.dat file usually appears because various ...

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on how to open winmail.dat files We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files, and can’t open them. What’s going on? Is there a utility ...