WMDecode 1.11 - Winmail.dat Decoding Tool

WMDecode efficiently and very simply gets documents out of mysterious winmail.dat attachments. While you can drag .eml files right onto the command line utility for processing, WMDecode offers no graphical interface, file previews or integration with email programs.

You expected important documents and got a strange winmail.dat attachment (your email program says its type is "MS-TNEF")? Of course, you could ask for the files to be resent in a legible manner — but the sender is important, too.

Fortunately, tools like WMDecode can peek into winmail.dat files and extract attachments put in there by a sending Outlook. WMDecode does it in particularly inconspicuous a manner.

A mere command line tool, WMDecode will search anything your drop onto it for files to extract and place them in the directory where it found the original file. Naturally, WMDecode accepts winmail.dat files, but you can also hand it .eml files so easily saved from email programs such as Windows Mail.

Some way to see what files are ready for extraction and maybe select only particulars would be nice, but WMDecode still does the job. It's still a pity that WMDecode does not in any way integrate with common email programs. WMDecode also offers no access to the formatting information contained in winmail.dat files along with attachments. (A plain text version of the message should be displayed in any email program, however.)