Just got a mail the other day containig a "winmail.dat" file. First i thought it was a mistake or a zip named somehow funny. It seemed thou that the sender used Microsoft Outlook to attach a "Note" or something. Since i hate Outlook and i could never use that piece of "software", i had to find a way to deal with that kind of attachement.

I found that Marc Seter had developed a programm called "Fentun" that unpacks these kind of crap. 

Here is a quote from the developers webpage regarding its name:

One dark and stormy nite, when the wind was howling and the tree branches were skittering across my window pane, I had a dream. There were two main characters in this dream, a purple and a green dragon. Their nest was on the top of the bank building in the middle of Denver, Colorado. And if anyone wants to hear that story, they can e-mail Fentun and I'll post it on this web site.

So after I made this program, I figured it needed a good name - something better than "tneffer". That's when this little green dragon winged his way out of the vaults to the forefront of my consciousness and demanded attention. Voila - Fentun was born. Fentun seemed like a good name for a dragon, and it's a fitting name for the program (read un-tnef backwards without thinking about it and you'll see what I mean). So I sketched an image of Fentun, slapped him into the program and now... well, now you know enough about him so that I can stop rambling.

You can download the program here http://www.fentun.com  

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