On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:26:31PM +0800, Ng Hak Beng wrote:
> Has any encountered this problem? I've noticed some Microsoft MUA users
> send attachments with the mime-type ms-tnef. When I receive the file via
> my qmail setup, it is unable to convert the attachment accordingly, and I
> end up with a file in the form like message.dat
>
> I have some tools to convert it, but I'm looking for more of an 'automated'
> solution, meaning for it to be converted as qmail receives it. It seems to
> be a MS problem, and I don't seem to find a patch or whatever to fix
>
This has nothing to do with Qmail or any other SMTP server. This is yet
another cr*p M$ "feature".
I have had people here sending Emails with Outlook Professional to Outlook
Express users - and the latter complaining about "corrupt" messages and
those weird message.dat attachments.
Even M$ products don't talk to each other...
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Cheers
Jason Haar
Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
