On 18.07.11,12:29, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: > Am 18.07.2011 11:12, schrieb Lars Hecking: > >Christoph P.U. Kukulies writes: > >>Hi. > >>I'm running Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) under Ubuntu and was wondering why > >>mutt couldn't cope with > >>some mail I got, containing an attachment, named winmail.dat (MS Outlook). > > > > Ask the sender to configure their mail tool for plain text or html rather > > than rich text. > > > Wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask why Thunderbird can process > said email from that > users' settings (outlook) and mutt cannot, rather than asking the > sender to change something in his > settings?
In mutt you can use tnef to handle these type of attachments: http://linux.die.net/man/1/tnef In Thunderbird you can use ktnef. Jostein
