Help I'm getting Winmail.dat files and I can't see my attachment!!

 So I get a call asking about an attachment called winmail.dat. The person was saying that this should have been an attachment they were expecting and they don't know how to get to it.

The problem stems from the senders side and not the receivers side. The senders Outlook client is set to compose the message in RTF (rich text format) instead of plain text or HTML. When the Mac user receives the message in Entourage, it will show the text of the message and the RTF version and accompanying attachment(s) are encapsulated in the winmail.dat file.

What to do?
1) The sender needs to change their messaging from RTF to either HTML or PlainText
2) The sender can zip or stuff the attachment and send it.
3) The recipient can use the application TNEF's Enough by Josh Jacobs (freeware) to decode the winmail.dat file.

I've tested this out with a winmail.dat attachment in Entourage 2008 SP1 and it works. I would also reccomend that you check out the preferences of this application for more configuration settings.

Thank you

Jason Gutierrez