
AkeeSoft WMViewer v1.0

Copyright (c) 2005 AkeeSoft, Inc.


Description
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AkeeSoft WMViewer is a GUI utility to dealing with the winmail.dat file (TNEF message), 
it can extract the winmail.dat, view mail body and save any attachments. 
It support Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003.
WMViewer is eady to use. To use, just open WMViewer.exe, drag/drop 
a WINMAIL.DAT file onto it to retrieve the mail body and attachments. 


When an end user sends mail to the Internet from an Exchange Windows or Outlook client, 
a file attachment called "winmail.dat" may be automatically added to the end of the 
message if the recipient's client cannot receive messages in Rich Text Format (RTF). 
The "winmail.dat" file contains Exchange Server RTF information for the message, 
and may appear to the recipient as a binary file. It is not useful to non-Exchange 
Server recipients. 

The file is a rich text (or MAPI) message that is sent from Outlook to Exchange. 
When Exchange sends the message to an outside server it writes the MAPI message 
as a MIME attachment. The unfortunate side effect of this plan is if the Outlook 
user has someone in their address book as a person who can receive "Rich Text" 
then the user will receive the TNEF file whether the user uses Outlook or not. 

If you use Microsoft Outlook Express and receive a message from an Outlook user 
which should have an attachment but appears to be missing then it may be still there. 
Follow this procedure: In Outlook Express, select the mail in the main list window, 
then click menu 'File','Properties', in the dialog, click 'Details', in the next 
dialog click 'Message Source', right-click 'Select All', then open Notepad and 
save as a file WINMAIL.MIM . Then open up WinZip - or another MIME decoder - 
choose menu 'open' and select the WINMAIL.MIM file and extract the file 'winmail.dat' 
into a folder and then open it by WMViewer. 

Versions History
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03/15/2005
1.0 Release


License
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This utility is released as freeware for personal and non-commercial use.
You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk,
CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge
anything for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all
files in the distribution package, without any modification !


Disclaimer
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The software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, either expressed
or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not
be liable for any special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages
due to loss of data or any other reason.


Using the AkeeSoft WMViewer utility
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This utility is a standalone executable. It doesn't require any
installation process or additional DLLs. Just run the executable
(WMViewer.exe) and open your winmail.dat. 


Feedback
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If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my
utility, you can send a message to wmviewer@akeesoft.com


WebSite
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http://www.akeesoft.com