On 18.07.11,13:27, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: > Am 18.07.2011 12:20, schrieb Christian Brabandt: > >On Mon, July 18, 2011 9:45 am, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: > >>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). > >> > >>Mutt wasn't able to unpack the two JPG files that were packed into that > >>winmail.dat container. > >>I asked the friend to send the same email to another account where I hat > >>thunderbird (5.0) and I was able to > >>see the attachments (JPGs) without seeing something of winmail.dat at all. > >> > >>Also forwarding the mail from mutt to the other account didn't help. I > >>then saw a winmail.dat > >>as an attachment and TB didn't know what to do with it. > >-> I 1 <no description> [text/plain, quoted, > >iso-8859-1, 0,2K] > > A 2 winmail.dat [applica/ms-tnef, > >base64, 5,5M] > > > > > Thanks, hope you don't mind me sending this back to the list. > > I got this "tnef"-package. What would now be the steps to make mutt > to recognize an attachment > named winmail.dat and use"tnef" to unpack it and show me the > attachments when I "v" the email. > > At present it looks like this: > -> I 1 <no description> [text/plain, quoted, > iso-8859-1, 0,2K] > A 2 winmail.dat [applica/ms-tnef, > base64, 5,5M] > > I'd rather have it look like showing the IM000xx.JPG files or whatever > winmail.dat is hiding to me. >
Try the steps listed for mutt and mailcap setup in the manual: http://linux.die.net/man/1/tnef Jostein
