winmail.dat files question please

[GR7]

Someone has just sent me a list of phone numbers etc in a file I can't open and it's "DATwinmail.dat" something or other and I'm hoping you clever techy people can suggest some way of me opening it please. Is there something I can download to enable me to open it? The person who sent it is in Germany so I don't know if that's why or if I don't have the necessary programme to open it with!

Thanks

 

[White16valver]

I assume you're expecting this file and it's not just sent from some random lol

 

[Nightfire]

Can open it with notepad

 

[GR7]

I assume you're expecting this file and it's not just sent from some random lol

Haha no it's a friend of mine who lives in Germany!!!

 

[GR7]

Can open it with notepad

I just tried that and it's GOBBLEDEGOOK!!!

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Help!!

 

[thecremeegg]

Ask them what prgram they used to make the file

 

[Evil Ally]

You need a utility called WMDecode, here:

http://www.biblet.freeserve.co.uk/

 

[Nightfire]

Ahh ok, try uploading it here.

http://tud.at/php/tnef/index.php

If it's a big file you might need to download a decoder. Think it's coz of the format it's sent by, rtf or something

 

[White16valver]

the .PST bit in the bit you posted - isn't that some sort of archived email file?

Or am I actually going mad? lol

 

[GR7]

the .PST bit in the bit you posted - isn't that some sort of archived email file?

Or am I actually going mad? lol

It's a database of phone numbers and contacts I need for a PR job I do!

There's hundreds of it!!!

Got to go out now and will check it out later.

THANKS AS ALWAYS!!!

 

[Gav76]

Are you using a really old mail system? Used to happen when old mail servers sent attachments to newer ones and didn't send them in the correct format.

 

[GR7]

It's probably because I'm on AOL and maybe because my friend sent it from Germany!

 

[ChrisR]

Are you using a really old mail system? Used to happen when old mail servers sent attachments to newer ones and didn't send them in the correct format.

We get this somtimes at work, someone will send through a word doc and it comes through as a .dat file that can't be opened.

It is to do with the mailservers for some reason, can't remember what though.