I have a couple of business emails that have come to be with a winmail.dat attachment that I cannot open on our MBP. I have done some reading and see that there is an app that can be used but it only accepts files 5mb or less...
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If you can't read the contents of the mail, ask the sender to re-send the mail in plain text. The attachment by itself is worthless, content-wise.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061
Only had our Mac for a few months and in the last week or so I have noticed this. One company resent it in a zip which shrunk the size down to just below 5 mb's, so I was able to use something to get it up and running but a bit of a pain. Worked though.
yeah they are coming from Outlook from others...I use Macmail
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thanks, but not sure I would pay for an app as I don't get many of these...windmaildat.com hosts a free site to use to get at these so not sure the difference..
maflynn
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It is an outlook thing, but I get a lot of emails from folks who use outlook and I've not had to deal with this issue for a very long time. I wonder if its something else, which is why I recommend trying a different email client.
I rarely see it now also. As stated in the Microsoft article (linked above by Mikael H), it was an issue with older (2003, 2007) versions of Outlook.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061
it comes from just one company, so it's possible they are using an ancient version of Outlook....just affecting pdf's right now.