Ben Lutgens wrote: >Hey all, my users keep sending us dorks attachments and when we get them in >our unix mailers we are presented with a completely useless "winmail.dat" >attachment. Anyone know a workaround? > > > > If you are using an email client besides Outlook (gasp!), you have > most likely run into the attachment winmail.dat. Supposedly this can > be prevented on the client side by sending mail in plain text; > however, this doesn't appear to work with attachments. We ran across a > cool utility at Fentun <http://www.fentun.com/> that will extract > attachments out of winmail.dat files. The beautiful thing is that it > runs on both Windows and on Linux. In fact, we ran the Linux binary to > extract an MS Word attachment, and opened it without incident in > AbiWord <http://abiword.org>. from netadmintools.com. haven't tried it. just remembered reading about it. jl