Opening winmail.dat attachments

[AntAltMike]

I recently received an e-mail with an attachment in winmail.dat format, but I can't open it. So far, I have tried this winmail.dat reader: Winmaildat.com: Open winmail.dat attachments. , as well as this downloadable reader: Download - Winmail.dat Reader - Free winmail.dat converter to open files sent by Outlook and Outlook Express

I think I had previously corrupted my Registry by once trying to open a similarly formatted winmail.doc attachment using Word Perfect. I think that I might have selected "Always use this program to open this format" when I tried to open one previously. I think I had already corrupted my Microsoft operating system by linking .dat files to Word Perfect in the Registry and I don't know how to unlink them, so as soon as I even try to open the winmail.dat attachment, I am hi-jacked and taken to Word Perfect.

When I try to enter what I think is my Registry by clicking the "regedit" icon, I get this message:"Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator". And when I click reglocs.old, it says "To open this program, windows needs to know what program created it"

In the short run, I just need someone to open the attachment, which is just a short inventory list, and paste it into an e-mail and send it back to me, but in the long run, I really do need to get into the registry and correct this "open file" error and another similar one. Any suggestions. I think my computer uses Windows XP.

 

[AntAltMike]

A friend of mine who writes software for Lotus said he thinks that the "winmail.dat" attachment on the e-mail was just a replication of the content of the e-mail itself and does not contain the list that I thought it did.

 

[Hall]

Tell the sender of this e-mail to edit your contact information in their address book. They need to turn off a setting related to "Rich text" formatting or something along those lines.

 

[vurbano]

I had that problem too at work.

 

[Jared Twomey]

I had that problem as well, as I use Thunderbird as my email client, but a little google seaching found an extension to open the files.
Also, I found that if i just went to the mail on the web, i use yahoo and gmail, that it would open the files just fine. The stuff I get is .doc files on a daily basis.
If you still haven't gotten it worked out, let me know and I will pm you my email address and i'll see if i can forward it to you.