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recommend app to open winmail.dat attachments?

can you recommend an app open winmail.dat attachments?


MacBook Air 11", macOS 10.14

Posted on Mar 28, 2019 7:40 PM

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Posted on Mar 28, 2019 7:58 PM

Hi sharpeilady!


Thanks for asking.


Both Microsoft Outlook and the Microsoft Exchange Client sometimes use a special method to package information for sending messages across the Internet. This method is technically known as Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF).


A TNEF-encoded message contains a plain text version of the message, and a binary attachment that "packages" various other parts of the original message. In most cases, the binary attachment is named Winmail.dat, and may include the following information:

  • The formatted text version of the message (for example, font information and colors).
  • OLE objects (for example, embedded pictures and embedded Microsoft Office documents).
  • Special Outlook features (for example, custom forms, voting buttons, and meeting requests).
  • Regular file attachments that were added to the original message.


You could try TNEF's Enough for macOS





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Mar 28, 2019 7:58 PM in response to sharpeilady

Hi sharpeilady!


Thanks for asking.


Both Microsoft Outlook and the Microsoft Exchange Client sometimes use a special method to package information for sending messages across the Internet. This method is technically known as Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF).


A TNEF-encoded message contains a plain text version of the message, and a binary attachment that "packages" various other parts of the original message. In most cases, the binary attachment is named Winmail.dat, and may include the following information:

  • The formatted text version of the message (for example, font information and colors).
  • OLE objects (for example, embedded pictures and embedded Microsoft Office documents).
  • Special Outlook features (for example, custom forms, voting buttons, and meeting requests).
  • Regular file attachments that were added to the original message.


You could try TNEF's Enough for macOS





recommend app to open winmail.dat attachments?

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