Re: winmail.dat files?

[David Cortright]

Title: Re: winmail.dat files?

These attachments are proprietary files generated by Windows Outlook when it sends messages in Rich Text format. You can ask the people who are sending you mail from Windows Outlook to send you HTML or plain text messages instead. They can do this by opening Windows Outlook, choosing Tools:Options, selecting the Mail Format tab, and choosing the appropriate option in the sending format popup.

If you wish to decode the TNEF files that were sent to you, try the third party utility called TNEF’s Enough. You can find this at <http://www.joshjacob.com>

From: "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:37:41 -0800
To: "Entourage mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: winmail.dat files?

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.Note


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.

--
Paul Berkowitz


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