{"id":2133,"date":"2012-07-02T11:18:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2012-07-02T11:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:18:02","slug":"opening-winmail-dat-files-in-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/02\/opening-winmail-dat-files-in-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening winmail.dat files in Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:517,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/addons.mozilla.org\\\/en-us\\\/thunderbird\\\/addon\\\/lookout&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20171103223419\\\/https:\\\/\\\/addons.mozilla.org\\\/en-us\\\/thunderbird\\\/addon\\\/lookout\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 13:53:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 05:39:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 01:45:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 01:45:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Outlook will attach items and forwarded email embedded in a &#8220;winmail.dat&#8221; file. The winmail.dat file is a TNEF file and Mozilla Thunderbird does not process them natively. The <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/thunderbird\/addon\/lookout\/\">LookOut<\/a> plugin for Thunderbird will allow you to see the attachments embedded within the winmail.dat file and treat them like normal attachments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outlook will attach items and forwarded email embedded in a &#8220;winmail.dat&#8221; file. The winmail.dat file is a TNEF file and Mozilla Thunderbird does not process them natively. The LookOut plugin for Thunderbird will allow you to see the attachments embedded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/02\/opening-winmail-dat-files-in-thunderbird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}