On 10/05/2006, at 12:12 PM, Paul Weaver wrote:

I had an email from a university containing a 5k attachment called
winmail.dat They know nothing about it. Can anyone enlighten me as to what
it could be please.

As Rod says, it is a Microsoft-inspired document. I regularly receive them from an organisation and I can easily open them with the TNEF app. From memory they convert to pdf's.

Cheers
.........

Peter Sealy
Thurgoona AUSTRALIA