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   DealBITS Drawing: Win a Copy of Letter Opener for macOS Mail

   Adam C. Engst

   winmail.dat. Does reading those characters give you the beginnings of
   heartburn? Those who regularly trade email with Windows users are all
   too familiar with winmail.dat files, which are email attachments that
   can contain essential aspects of the email communication. Email
   generated by Outlook for Windows can create winmail.dat attachments for
   a variety of reasons. It may just be to include the RTF version of the
   message you can see as plain text. But winmail.dat might also contain
   an important attachment, such as an image, a calendar invitation, an
   address book contact, or nested messages.

   To decode winmail.dat files, you need special software, and the easiest
   approach is with Creative in Austria's [1]Letter Opener for macOS Mail.
   Once installed, Mail in macOS automatically decodes winmail.dat files
   and displays their contents natively within Mail. It's as simple as
   that.

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   Put simply, you know if you need Letter Opener or not by the constant
   presence of winmail.dat files in your email. If you do, [3]enter at the
   DealBITS page before midnight on 16 April 2017 for a chance to win one
   of five copies of Letter Opener for macOS Mail, regularly priced at
   $39.99. All information gathered is covered by our comprehensive
   [4]privacy policy.

References

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   2. http://tidbits.com/resources/2017-04/Letter-Opener.png
   3. http://tidbits.com/dealbits
   4. http://tidbits.com/about/privacy.html

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