Winmail.dat issues

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Kermit4u

I was sent a contact list from a Outlook user. the attachment came as a
winmail.dat file. I have been unable to do anything with this
attachment. I need to be able to get this contacts.

Any help.
 
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Barry Wainwright

I was sent a contact list from a Outlook user. the attachment came as a
winmail.dat file. I have been unable to do anything with this
attachment. I need to be able to get this contacts.

Any help.
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Winmail.dat and/or application/ms-tnef files are sent by Windows users of
Outlook or Exchange who have their mail clients set up to use ŒRTF¹ instead
of plain text or HTML.

Usually they only contain a styled text version of the message you have just
read in plain text, but they can contain encoded attachments that you can¹t
usually get to.

Fortunately, there is an excellent little application that lets you read
these files and extract the attachments, called ³TNEF¹s Enough², by Josh
Jacob. Here¹s a link that should let you find it on VersionTracker:

<http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_F
ilter=MacOSX&search=tnef& ;x=14&y=8

Better still, contact you correspondent and ask them to reset their mail
client prefs to use plain text, or at worst, HTML.
 
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Torbjørn Gundersen

I have the same problem with attachments from a Outlook user and TNEF's
enough solves the problem with attached files - but it doesn't solve the
problem with vCards sent to me TNEF's enogh can't make anything out of those
attachments. I've even had the opportunity to reconfig his mail client and
it look on his computer that everything is set to "plain txt" Nevertheless I
keep receivein winmail.dat instead -
 
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