arg - i wonder if I can setup pine or sendmail so that it sends a canned
response when i get mail like that.  any ideas?

~kurth


On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:

> Yep, it's due to Outlook's brain-damage.  The default is HTML, and outlook 
> encapsulates that whole thing into "winmail.dat."  I believe there is software 
> out there to correct the problem, or you can tell the people to re-send in 
> plain text.
> 
> Found one for Netscape at least:  http://freshmeat.net/projects/fentun/?highlig
> ht=winmail.dat
> 
> Microsoft calls the encapsulation Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format 
> (TNEF), another Microsoft "standard"
> 
> > 
> > hey all - i really really like pine.  its nifty :-)  one problem
> > tho.  whenever anyone sends me mail from outlook express pine dosen't
> > display the message.  Anyone had similar problems..i'm using version
> > 4.21..so the version thati have isn't too old....
> > 
> 
> 
> jeff
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jeffry Smith      Technical Sales Consultant     Mission Critical Linux
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> Thought for today:  sys-frog /sis'frog/ n. 
> 
>  [the PLATO system] Playful variant
>    of `sysprog', which is in turn short for `systems programmer'.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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