[KLUG Members] winmail.dat and tnef

[Eric Beversluis]

I've had that lately too--with emails I send myself from Win to Linux.
Just gave up on it.  Glad to know about the program you found.
EB

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:03 -0400, bill wrote:
> Received an email attachment today called winmail.dat.  It had two
> attachments in it.  
> 
> Apparently MS has Outlook merge attachments together in its own format,
> assuming the rest of the world uses Outlook too.  Anybody surprised?
> 
> Googling around I found a program called tnef
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/) that seems to have opened it up
> pretty well (Open Office could upen the MS-Word doc and a CSV file
> without problem).
> 
> I always ignored winmail.dat files before.  Anybody else have other
> suggestions, recommendations, on dealing with winmail.dat files?
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> bill
> 
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