Winmail.dat extractor free app for android description: I guess many of us have already stumbled over winmail.
Dat or attxxxx.
Dat attachments in our android email clients.
These attachment names usually occour when somebody who is using a microsoft outlook email client sends you an certain rtf (rich text format) email with attachments.
Ms outlook then packs these attachments into a tnef (transport neutral encapsulation format) envelope.
Other ms outlook clients can deal with this format but however most of the other email clients cannot!
They will receive instead an attachment with the above mentioned naming and can basically do nothing with it.
While this is a well known (and annoying) circumstance there are already plug ins for many open email clients such as mozilla thunderbird.
For android however there seemed to be nothing (and i have been doing quite some research on it).
So i finally decided to write my own app to deal with tnef attachments.
Luckily there was already an existing java package which could do the extraction job so that i only had to create the android app around it and do some debugging on the original code.
My kudos here go to amichai rothman for his java tnef package ( source jtnef )!!
I originally created this application for my own purposes but then i thought it is worth while sharing it with the community.
It is already bi lingual (english and localized to german) and should get its job done.
The app itself registers as a handler for.
Dat or.
Dat files and for email attachments.
When you e.
G.
Try to open a winmail.
Dat attachment from within your android email client or a winmail.
Dat file with your file browser the app should be launched or you see a chooser box where you can select this app.
When you do so you will see an alert box.
When you press ok the app will try to extract the contents of winmail.
Dat to a local folder.
The default for this folder is sdcard winmail.
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