If you're having trouble opening a DAT file, I'll show you a simple and free way to do it. This method works on both Mac and PC. Just open your browser and go to winmaildat.com. It's a ...

After installing libextractor, the extract tool can be used to obtain metadata from documents. By default, the extract tool uses a canonical set of plugins, which consists of all file-format-specific ...

We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files, and can't open them. What's going on? Is there a utility that can extract the attachments from these?

UPDATE: A few MacFixIt readers suggest TNEF's Enough, a freeware tool developed by Josh Jacob that allows Macs to read and extract files from Microsoft TNEF stream ("winmail.dat") files.