Hi Chris.
Enjoy watching your show and perhaps you have an answer to an ongoing question I have.
I get email from my daughter and also from a friend that come 99% of the time with an attachment named winmail.dat. Sometimes the text part of the message is in the email and sometimes not.
I have not been able to find a program that opens the attached files (winmail.dat) to anything except a jumble of ASCII text. My daughter uses Outlook and her mail goes through a company (Worldnet) server – she thinks maybe the company server scrubs the files, but other people receive them with no problem.
It doesn't seem to matter if she sends them to my AOL address, my Earthlink address (receibved either via Eudora, Outlook Express, or Netmail), through Netscape or IE. I don't know what program the other person uses (they are very novice and probably don't even know themselves – tho I suspect they too use Outlook. Some of their attachments come as *.elm files.
Thus far I have not been able to view even one of these *.dat files. Do you have any clues? Why this happens or how to open the files?