Winmail Opener Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ Index:
- You say Winmail Opener is free of charge. Why it's free? Does it contain spyware or adware stuff?
- I would like to recomend this product to be used in the company where I work. Do I need to have the business manager contact you about a site licence for business, or is it freeware for business as well as home users?
- Do you have a download for Mac OS? Is there any freeware program for Mac users to open winmail.dat?
- Is it possible to install Winmail Opener in silent mode?
- Is it possible to uninstall Winmail Opener in silent mode?
- Is it possible to use widcards in batch operations?
Q: You say Winmail Opener is free of charge. Why it's free? Does it contain spyware or adware stuff?
A: Winmail Opener is completely free, and it have no spyware or adware bundled. For example, Softpedia assigned "100% clean" award to this software. We believe that our application give you the convenient way to open these inconvenient winmail.dat files, and it always will be free.
Q: I would like to recomend this product to be used in the company where I work. Do I need to have the business manager contact you about a site licence for business, or is it freeware for business as well as home users?
A: Winmail Opener is freeware for both commercial and personal use.
Q: Do you have a download for Mac OS X? Is there any program (freeware) for Macintosh users (Mac OS X) to open winmail.dat?
A: This is a frequent question we receive. We do not develop Mac OS software, and could only recommend a freeware Mac OS application for reading and extracting TNEF-encoded files TNEF's Enough. (We heard from Mac OS users it works well).
Q: Is it possible to install Winmail Opener in silent mode?
A: You can use the following installation package switches and syntax:
winmail_opener.exe [switches]
Switch | Description |
/S | Unattended (silent) installation (software will be installed by default in the "%ProgramFiles%/Winmail Opener" folder) |
/D=c:\WinmailOpener | Specify default installation folder |
Q: Is it possible to uninstall Winmail Opener in silent mode?
A: Since version 1.5 you can use the switch /S for running uninstaller without any confirmation messages:
uninst.exe /S
Q: Is it possible to use widcards in batch operations?
A: No, Winmail Opener expects only one real filename in the parameters list. But you can achieve this by writing a simple .bat file like our user did (save the text below as run.bat, modify the paths if needed):
for %%a in (c:\In\*.dat) do wmopener.exe "%%a" "c:\Out"