[Evolution] What are winmail.dat attachments?

["D. D. Brierton" <darren dzr-web com>]

I seem to get a lot of winmail.dat attachments (MIME type
application/vnd.ms-tnef) from Outlook users. What are they, and should
Evolution (or something else) be able to do something with them?

TIA, Darren

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