A few days ago I received an email with a winmail.dat attachment (I am using Apple Mail client) from an incurable windows user… and his outlook mail client that I will resist to comment… I didn’t want to ask him to resend it because the last time I tried that with another sender a long time ago… it was a waste of time for both of us… although I pointed him to official documentation on configuring Outllook. So I started searching for a tool that could open winmail.dat files. I even found commercial ones in the Mac App Store… But I wasn’t willing to spend even 1 cent…

So I had the “brilliant” idea of sending that email to my gmail account… and it worked!! Google mail opens winmail.dat attachments!!

Update: Later on I discovered that this work-around was proposed by hundreds of people all over the Internet