2 Solutions on How to Open Winmail.dat Files on Mac

There are people using Windows/Outlook, so you might receive emails with .dat file extension. Many Mac users have encountered the problem of failing to open winmail files on Mac. This article will show you how to open and view winmail.dat files on Mac in 2 different ways.

The main content of this article consists of two parts:

What Is Winmail.dat File?

The winmail.dat file exisit because various mail programs cope with message formats differently. Winmail.dat file,a proprietary email format created by Microsoft/Windows Exchange Server, which contains rich-text formatting and packs all the original email information(subject, body, attchment) in the file. Users from other email clients or other platforms can not open the Winmail.dat file easily. 

Anyway, if you want to open Winmail.dat files on mac, you can try following 2 solutions according to your need.

How to Open Winmail.dat File on Mac?

To open Winmail.dat files on a Mac, a Winmail reader is needed. 

Here I recommend you Cisdem Document Reader. It is an one-stop solution for you to open winmail.dat files on Mac OS, and allows any attachments contained in them to be previewed and saved. As described ,it can open different documents simultaneously on Mac, like XPS, OXPS, WPD, WPS, Visio, PDF and DjVu. DocumentReader can also let you extract images, print and convert the documents into PDF, Text, JPEG, PNG, RTFD, ect.

Read the instructions below on how to open winmail.dat file on Mac:

• Download and install Document Reader on your mac.
• Click Open File or drag-n-drop to open winmail.dat file on your Mac.
• All contents of winmail.dat, including email message and attachments will be presented. With this product and its list view, you can open and view multiple winmail.dat files at the same time. Moreover, you are able to switch between multiple winmail files easily.

Download Cisdem DocumentReader now, and stop opening winmail.dat files without viewing the attachments. It works flawlessly, which makes you don’t even notice its existence.

Here are some complementary features of Cisdem DocumentReader:

• It will open and list all the files in list view in one window, so you don't have to switch among different windows when opening multiple winmail.dat files simultaneously.
• Not only can it open files, but support converting Visio to PDF, WPD to PDF, XPS to PDF, DjVu to PDF, PDF to images and so on.
• When you open documents on Mac with the application, it precisely presents the original text style, graphics, hyperlinks, layout, images and formats.
• With its fantastic toolbar, you can view, rotate, zoom, export and print files. If you would like to find a word in a file, you can use Keyword Search function.
• It supports OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion or later.

Part III:How to open winmail.dat files on Mac for Free?

Also, if you don't need to open Winmail.dat files on mac on a regular basis, or you are not working on highly private files, you can utilize online free Winmail.dat reader. According to my tests, winmaildat is a good choice to view Winmail.dat file. You just need to upload the files, then click "Start" to get the winmail.dat file in rtf format, and open the rtf file to check what is inside the winmail.dat file.

Conclusion

There are many free products. However, in the light of the comments given by their users, some of their performance really disappoint users. And paid-for product like Letter Opener Pro ($29.95) is too costly. Therefore, it is pretty much clear for us that Cisdem DocumentReader is ideal for non-Windows/Outlook users to read winmail files on Mac.

Have Cisdem DocumentReader installed now, then all your problems will be gone.

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