Winmail.dat problem

[Sysem]

Ok, so I've scoured the internet and can't find a solution. Basically I'm looking for an app to decode the winmail.dat app (like ones for windows) as many of my emails get sent in this format. ALL solutions I've found require me to get the sender to change the format of the email sent from HTML to rtf (or vice versa). But this won't help, as I can't exactly go to my entire email list and get them to change it because I'm the one having a problem. Is there any other solution?

Thanks,
Sysem

 

[murraybiscuit]

http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/

 

[Sysem]

Haha thanks man, maybe I wasn't clear enough. Was hoping for a mobile app, so I can view them on the go. Never at a pc during the day, and rely on my BB.

 

[murraybiscuit]

ah. shame. bummer

 

[CranialBlaze]

Haha thanks man, maybe I wasn't clear enough. Was hoping for a mobile app, so I can view them on the go. Never at a pc during the day, and rely on my BB.

So far there is no way to get mails from your pc to your blackberry without actually sending them. Unlike Windows Mobile there is no mail sync for the berry with your PC. the phone itself does support plain text, rtf and html formats for viewing email so as long as they are sending it in any known mail format you can read it on your handset.

 

[Sysem]

Obviously didn't make myself very clear then
Don't need to sync it with a PC, just need to view a winmail.dat attatchment on my blackberry. Many of my emails don't display a message, just this attatchment

 

[CranialBlaze]

Obviously didn't make myself very clear then
Don't need to sync it with a PC, just need to view a winmail.dat attatchment on my blackberry. Many of my emails don't display a message, just this attatchment

Thats a data file, not an actual file attachment, i have seen those come through on my phone and when getting the mail on my PC there is no actual attachment. Even on a pc the winmail.dat file would simply be gibberish. The winmail.dat attachment is like a css file for you email, its a layout/design instruction that gets read by a desktop client so that it displays it as it was sent instead of plain text or plain html.

You are most likely seeing it as they are forwarding email as attachments instead of in the body itself which is where the problem comes in, its sender stupidity nothing more and unfortunately short of educating them there is nothing you can do about it. No phone will read the display instructions contained in a winmail.dat file.

 

[Sysem]

Ok, however decoding the winmail.dat using the software provided a few posts up, would show the entire message. I know this because I was forced to do it a couple of times a few years ago. The problem is not on the senders side, as all the recipents (including myself when I'm at a pc) can view the message. Its only on my BB that I can't.