Email attachment.dat

[Ed Greshko]

Simon Slater wrote:
> 	G'day again
> 		This may be a ver basic or even stupid question, but I'll ask anyway
> (if I show my ignorance, hopefully I can increase in knowledge).  Some
> emails received have an attachment called attachment.dat.  What is this
> for and what is in it?  I do not open attachments unless I know who they
> are from & what they are for.

Strangely enough this was just discussed on the RHELv5 list....

Go here:

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list

and check out the archives with the subject "[rhelv5-list] winmail.dat"


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