Hi Paul,
Did you check the OE archives on this? I found a relatively detailed
explanation of this upon searching for winmail. It has to do with MIME types
and RTF formatting.
Cheers,
Jed
On the threshold of genius, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
> Does anyone know what a winmail.dat file is? I got one as an attachment.
> There's nothing at all on my mac that will open it properly. BBEdit shows
> most of it as gibberish and rectangles, with a few sane sequences such as
>
> Microsoft Mail.Note1
>
> and later on, most of the content of the actual message. Did the Windows
> sender perhaps just drag a text clipping or a text file to the outgoing
> message, and the content gets inserted in (as) the body of the message with
> the gibberish being headers, etc?
>
> Source says it's a multi-part message. Otherwise it's similar gibberish,
> with repeated "A" instead of rectangles. Plus the real text above.
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Jed Verity
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