TNEF is indeed a nightmare.

Consider also  if your EMail Provider can decode already the TNEF. We have our 
own MailServer with Communigate Pro Server and a TNEF decoder from Niversoft. 
Works like a charm.

Urs


Am 24.12.2010 um 11:50 schrieb Marco Piovanelli:

> Hello,
> 
> Over the last few years, I've been getting more and more mail
> with attachments wrapped in "winmail.dat" files.  These are
> files in a horribly proprietary format misnomered "Transport
> Neutral Encapsulation Format", or TNEF for short, created by
> Microsoft (who else?) in total disregard for the well-entrenched,
> very well-documented MIME Internet standard that has been used
> by the rest of the computing universe since the early '90s.
> 
>    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format>
> 
> As much as I personally despise TNEF, I'm getting tired of having
> to use third-party tools to manually decode winmail.dat files, and
> I'd rather my favorite mail client handled such decoding automatically.
> 
> So I'd like to respectfully ask CTM Dev to consider adding support
> for automatic TNEF decoding to a future version of PowerMail.
> 
> 
>                                    -- marco
> 
> --
> It's not the data universe only, it's human conversation.
> They want to turn it into a one-way flow that they have entirely
> monetized. I look at the collective human mind as a kind of
> ecosystem. They want to clear cut it. They want to go into the
> rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.
> 
> 


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