[blindeudora] FYI on WINMAIL.DAT
- From: Trouble <sunnylynn2u@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindeudora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:42:34 -0400
WINMAIL.DAT attachment to messages
Document ID: 1552HQ
ISSUE:
Messages come in with an attached file "WINMAIL.DAT" or "AT00001.DAT" and
neither Eudora nor any other program can open it.
SOLUTION:
Eudora doesn't open attachments. Eudora just passes them to the program
that is registered with Windows to open that type of attachment (eg. Eudora
asks
Word to open .DOC files). Once you receive an attachment it is
automatically decoded and stored in your designated Attachment directory.
Opening that file
is no different from opening a file that was given to you on a floppy disk
by a friend--if you don't have the program that originally created that file,
you most likely won't be able to open it.
A .DAT file is a data file and many different applications use them. It is
unlikely that any one program is registered in Windows with the File
Association
for .dat; this is why Eudora would not be able to guess what to open this
type of file with WINMAIL.DAT is a proprietary Outlook file that allows Outlook
users to send Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) information
(see Microsoft's technical support article at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q241/5/38.ASP).
This TNEF information is unopenable and irrelevant outside of Outlook.
Last Modified: 11/17/1999
Tim
trouble
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