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Why I am getting email attachments as 'Winmail.dat' file. Because the sender's Office Outlook settings are wrong. The winmail.dat attachment is a product of Outlook's proprietary RTF format. No mail client other than Outlook (or Exchange Client) can decode these TNEF-en. MSG Viewer for Outlook 3.99 is another app for opening Winmail.dat files on mac. It lets you open those frustrating Microsoft Outlook MSG, OFT, and Winmail.dat files on Mac. Batch processing and conversion to native mac formats (eml or vcf) is also supported. What’s more, it helps to import and save contacts in vCards. There are free converters that allow you to upload the winmail.dat file to be read on site, and the Mac App Store offers a conversion app (TNEF’s Enough) that will allow you to open the files on your Desktop. The problem: Some email recipients on Mac OS X using Apple Mail and Gmail receive winmail.dat attachments in place of correctly-encoded MIME attachments from users running Outlook 2016/Windows 10/Office 365 hosted mail. They can't open the faulty attachments and (in our case) the result is grumpy clients.

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    • I use Mac for my works, I received a lot of winmail.dat files from the senders who are using Microsoft Outlook, but I don’t know how to extract and save it, the contents is very important for me. I need them to do my works. This question has been bothering me for a long time, I am eager to solve. Does anyone know what method can I fix?

    • Gmail opens winmail.dat files so if you are allowed to forward these emails to a Gmail account, that’s probably the easiest. Once they open via Gmail, save them locally on your computer and if needed resend them as the updated files to your work address. But that’s probably overkill.

      There’s also an app called TNEF’s Enough for Mac OS. It’s an app Josh Jacob developed–donationware–to help Mac users like you deal with attachments from users of Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, especially attachments with the name “winmail.dat.”

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