Winmail.dat files in Email

[Bradley J. Bartram]

Check the squirrelmail site as I believe there is a plugin you can enable 
which translates winmail.dat files.  I do know that there are plugins 
available for various MTAs as the plugins and patches work with virus 
scanners and such.

brad

On Friday 04 October 2002 03:08 pm, Robert Meyer wrote:
> I figgered out a temp solution for now.  I downloaded 'tnef' from freshmeat
> and deconvolved the attachment and got it to the guy that needed it.
>
> It would be nice if there was a way to add that support to things like
> Eudora, squirrelmail (probably easier) and Evolution.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
>
> --- Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> > winmail.dat files are outlook encoded emails.  When someone composes
> > anything with fancy text/graphics/backgrounds/etc, outlook encodes it
> > upon sending as winmail.dat.
> >
> > This should help you out.
> >
> > http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > > OK, we get winmail.dat files occasionally that are attached to Email
> >
> > messages
> >
> > > that come in from various places.  The one that I'm looking at now
> > > appears
> >
> > to
> >
> > > have a PDF file stuck in it but there are some headers that are in
> > > front of
> >
> > it.
> >
> > > The 'file' command calls the thing:
> > > winmail.dat: Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
> > >
> > > WTF?
> > >
> > > Is there anything that I can do with these.  The one that I have now is
> > > an invoice that we will have to deal with.
> > >
> > > Thanks...
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > =====
> > > Bob Meyer
> > > Knightwing Communications, Inc.
> > > 36 Cayuga Blvd
> > > Depew, NY 14043
> > > Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
> > > Meyer_RM at Yahoo.com
> > >
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> > Dege
> >
> > So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> > .... If They Weren't Happening To Me
>
> =====
> Bob Meyer
> Knightwing Communications, Inc.
> 36 Cayuga Blvd
> Depew, NY 14043
> Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
> Meyer_RM at Yahoo.com
>
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