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DESCRIPTION
Letter Opener... When using Apple Mail, if you've ever received an e-mail that included an attachment called winmail.dat, you know the frustration of not knowing what was sent to you. When this comes from an employer or client, it's even more frustrating.
That winmail.dat file may only be the rich text format (RTF) version of the message you're already seeing as plain text, in which case all you're missing is formatting that may not be important. But the file could contain an important graphic, calendar entry or invitation, task, address book contact, Microsoft Outlook Note, or nested messages. In those cases, you may miss important communications.
With Letter Opener in Apple Mail, the worry is gone. Letter Opener converts winmail.dat files on the fly, so you can actually see and use what the sender intended you to have. There's no fuss with Letter Opener, no need to drag the winmail.dat file onto another application or call upon several programs to help you. Once Letter Opener is installed, you can forget about it.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.0.2: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
| SCREENSHOT
| Developer: | restoroot.com |
| Downloads: | 12,483 |
| - Version d/l: | 486 |
| Internet: | Email |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 23 Oct 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $29.95 |
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| Letter Opener User Reviews (14 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 7 2009 |
JAZZYGUY I hate to cost this guy some money but as someone said here THEF's Enough does exactly the same thing that this app does for FREE.I don't like to take money out of a developer's hands but the Mac Community deserves to know about this.Consequently if you type Enough in the MacUpdate search box you will get it and it is FREE which is better than 29 hard earned bucks!
(Version 3.0.1) | |
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| Sep 7 2009 |
JAZZYGUY BTW It is NOT a mail plugin! BUT you simply save the .dat file to your desktop and drop it iver Enough's icon. Voila! The whole thing is decifered as well as all attachments.
(Version 3.0.1) | |
| Sep 7 2009 |
JOHNDOE7 That guy just costs himself more than only one customer. Snow Leopard has been around as a development version for more than half a year, and all the developer of this software comes up with is a meager (not even) three months of goodwill for an upgrade. As stated earlier, this is not what I call fairness. If that's going to be his last offer I'll accept my loss of investment. I will not put any more money into an upgrade. That's also my recommendation to other customers. | |
| Sep 12 2009 |
DVH Letter Opener is a more elegant solution. Outlook/Exchange encoded attachments are just there. This is a true plug in, it's operation is transparent, and in true Mac spirit it just works. If you are a home user and don't mind the several steps to use TNEF's Enough - that program works well. If you have to deal with a hundred emails a day and don't want to have to deal with "missing" attachments and having to move them to proper folders after decoding - Letter Opener is a faster solution. The developer has done a great job. For true "Exchange" compatibility Apple really should have this function built into Mail.
(Version 3.0.1) | |
| Sep 13 2009 |
JOHNDOE7 "Great job". Yeah, once. Now he has finally started to shamelessly rip off his prior-to-3.0 customers that thought switching to Snow Leopard might be a good idea. It still IS a good idea to switch, but without Letter Opener. De-installation routine is your friend. | |
| Nov 2 2009 |
I think this should be part of Mail, but it's not, so I bought a fix. I'd have loved a free/next-to-free upgrade (6 months purchase grace would have been fairer), but 9.99 is hardly a rip off - IMHO. But for you it might be. I think you need to cool it a little - it's Apple forcing all the developers to re-jig their apps to fit the new 64/32bit architecture - and over the iterations, they have repeatedly changed/tweaked Mail and it's API's. Snow Leopard improved/reworked/broke lots of stuff - we have still not upgraded the majority of our macs - does not matter if it was $30 or $5 -.0 caused problems - when 10.6.2 rolls out, hopefully it will be GM quality. For a domestic/hobby situation - or for those who don't need to value (earn with) their time - use TNEF. In my company, we do not have the time to waste - we need to be earning money, not messing with making folders and moving stuff around [TNEF] - I want my attachments inside Mail, with the email. The majority of our clients run Windows - so we get .dat files a lot. This makes it very easy.
(Version 3.0.2) | |
| Aug 31 2009 |
YOXI Support for Mail v4 in Snow Leopard? I hope it's coming soon.
(Version 2.2.2) | |
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 | Sep 2 2009 |
CATLAN Letter Opener Version 3 released, compatibly with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
(Version 2.2.2) | |
| Sep 6 2009 |
JOHNDOE7 First, thanks for the update. Second, your upgrade policy s*cks majorly. I don't really care if this has been a complete rewrite or not (which may as well be a result of bad coding in the first place), the only thing I can see is that you're charging 12 EUR (incl. VAT) for a no-new-funcionality upgrade less than 3 months of goodwill for customers who have already paid 20+ EUR for 2.2 -- the whole Snow Leopard upgrade itself only cost 29 EUR! You should definitely reconsider your upgrade policy. | |
| Sep 17 2009 |
TOMECK I was a fan and supporter of Letter Opener (formerly known as OMIC) as well and I have to agree with John: the upgrade policy is questionable. I remember that I bought OMIC for 5 (probably I was one of the first ever paid for OMIC) in August 2006 and paid an upgrade fee of 9.99 End of April 2009 after our offices has upgraded to Leopard. To pay the same upgrade fee for the Snow Leopard version... I am not sure that I am willing to do so as more as there is no discount if you would like to upgrade several licences. Why does the discount for buying more licences does not apply to upgrades? I am not saying that an upgrade fee is illegitimate but the fee should be reasonable with a fair "grace period" even more if people support an developer across diffrent versions.
(Version 3.0.1) | |
| Sep 17 2009 |
TOMECK I was a fan and supporter of Letter Opener (formerly known as OMIC) as well and I have to agree with John: the upgrade policy is questionable. I remember that I bought OMIC for 5 (probably I was one of the first ever paid for OMIC) in August 2006 and paid an upgrade fee of 9.99 End of April 2009 after our offices has upgraded to Leopard. To pay the same upgrade fee for the Snow Leopard version... I am not sure that I am willing to do so as more as there is no discount if you would like to upgrade several licences. Why does the discount for buying more licences does not apply to upgrades? I am not saying that an upgrade fee is illegitimate but the fee should be reasonable with a fair "grace period" even more if people support an developer across diffrent versions.
(Version 3.0.1) | |
 | Jul 15 2009 |
JOSUE64 I have used this app for some time now. Since the early version. I love it. It does what is says it does. I do agree that the developer should send you the registration number, but he does reply when he can. The new version works great. I bought the app at full price which I think is a bit too much, but at the MacUpdate price, it's doable. Apple really should hire the developer.
(Version 2.2.1) | |
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| Jun 4 2009 |
DCT BEWARE: After paying, you will not receive a license. I have sent three emails to the author with no response. Fortunately, I paid with AMEX through PayPal so I can dispute the payment.
(Version 2.1) | |
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| Jun 1 2009 |
REALGUY This may be great software - but after having it loaded for 24 hours, and starting/stopping Mail.app perhaps 5 times, I do NOT want to be asked every single time I open the app if I am ready to pay yet! I requested the DEMO period ONCE. I expect to get through the demo until I am asked AGAIN. I have removed the software - so it never had a chance to show me what it could do. If the developer rethinks that strategy (and also includes an UNinstall), I would try it again some day.
(Version 2.1) | |
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| Jul 7 2009 |
CATLAN You can uninstall it over Mail Menu -> Letter Opener -> uninstall
(Version 2.2) | |
| Oct 8 2007 |
GRYPHONENT How does this compare to YAI, which sells for $4 and - from what I can see - does exactly the same as OMiC.
(Version 1.7.6) | |
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| Oct 9 2007 |
CATLAN From YAI Homepage: YAI (You Are Invited) is a plug-in for Apple Mail that translates and transfers Outlook, Google Calendar, Zimbra and Exchange style meeting invitations to iCal. So it translates iCalendar files which iCal not understand to iCalendar files iCal understand. OMiC extract from winmail.dat files embedded attachment, RTF messages, nested messages (rfc822), vCards or iCalendar files. This are two complete different problems and solutions.
(Version 1.7.6) | |
| Oct 9 2007 |
GRYPHONENT That was helpful, thank you!
(Version 1.7.6) | |
 | Aug 2 2007 |
GUILLAUMEK Free alternative: TNEF's Enough This is not a Mail plugin though.
(Version 1.7.5) | |
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| Sep 7 2009 |
JAZZYGUY Thanks!
(Version 3.0.1) | |
| Jul 30 2007 |
APIKOROS I must revise my previous review. It seems to have been one particular file that OMiC choked on and that crashed it. Since then, it has worked well on two other files received. (Side note: the author asked me to send him the file that cashed OMiC and I did. I later e-mailed to ask him if he had figured out the problem, but he was not courteous enough to reply.)
(Version 1.7.4) | |
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| Jun 23 2007 |
THESUN I don't understand how this feature is not provided by Apple, with so many Windows users out there running Outlook, you keep getting Winmail.dat files which are unusable on any mailer except for Outlook! Christopher Atlan to the rescue with a wonderfully smooth application that was easy to install and even easier to purchase and activate. I wish all software was like this. It delivers on its promise, and actually does a bit more than that, for example I never expected the support for calendar requests but it just works wonderfully! Thank you Christopher! :-)
(Version 1.7.4) | |
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| May 29 2007 |
MBERG Amazingly good little program for those DAMN winmail.dat files all our PeeCee colleagues at work keep unknowingly sending us. I tried to get IT to 'uncheck' the box on outlook mail that automatically sends these unusuable files, but everytime there was an update at work we went BACKWORDS. Ive been downloading and converting these files for 2 years. A pain. This program automatically converts them to mac friendly USABLE files (iCal, etc.). I used it ONCE and payed the registration fee. Its that good.
(Version 1.7.3) | |
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