http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Attachments received as windat.dat file of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:17:50 +0200 Attachments received as windat.dat file can't decode attachment in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
AFAIK winmail files are sent only when is used MS Outlook & MS Exchnage and this is setting of Exchange
10 December 2007 19:17:50, Marek Mikus.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20674/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20674/ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:17:50 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Attachments received as windat.dat file can't decode attachment in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Also, try telling the person who is sending the emails to you to go into the setting of their MS Outlook program and change them to only send native format attachments.  I cannot remember the setting, and it varies from version to version of Outlook.  However it should not be too difficult to figure out.

You could of course convince them not to use Outlook and move to more compliant program..  such as The Bat for instance.

windat, I believe, is an attempt by Microsoft to own the email client industry and one more reason to join the Underground movement.

Thomas
09 December 2007 19:36:38, Thomas Dahl.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20667/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20667/ Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:36:38 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Attachments received as windat.dat file can't decode attachment in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
try free Winmail Opener, this is much better than Fentun, which has problems under XP and Vista

http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/
05 December 2007 22:13:40, Marek Mikus.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20628/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20628/ Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:13:40 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Attachments received as windat.dat file can't decode attachment in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
No, it's a proprietary format, so TB can't decode it.

However there used to be a free tool called fentun (or something like it) that decodes windat.dat files.
Google for fentun or for windat and decode and you'll find something appropriate to download.
04 December 2007 23:23:31, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20612/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20612/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:23:31 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Attachments received as windat.dat file can't decode attachment in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
I am receiving attachments, presumably from Outlook users, as windat.dat files. I can only decode them by re-forwarding the the message to an e-mail address using Outlook.(I use Windows Vista)

Is there a way to configure The Bat to decode automatically?  
04 December 2007 22:20:34, Antony Greenwood.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20610/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic5424/message20610/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:20:34 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client