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


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