Goh! winmail.dat !!

http://www.fentun.com/

stick "application/ms-tnef" in Prefs > Navigator > Helper Apps (of course different for thunderbird).

I forward a winmail.dat email to my brother (Outlook [l]user) from mozilla and he could open it fine, even tho he couldnt open the file on its own (we first tried just pulling it off the network).

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Phil Scarratt wrote:
Peter Tyler wrote:

Nuh- No crash on 20031205 but I'm on my old NT box.
What are those winmail.dat attachments anyway? Are they created from drag and drop?


<SNIP>

winmail.dat attachments come from outlook whose composition format is
selected to rich text. It's not RTF nor HTML, rather some silly
proprietary text formatting (from M$....no I don't believe it!!). I
can't remember the exact details but basically the message and any
attachments get's put together into this packet of tnef (what M$ called
it at the MIME level) which gets sent as well as the message in plain
text. The silly thing is that this means any attachments are not
available to end users who cannot read the M$ rich text format (which
includes outlook express users). They just see a winmail.dat attachment.
It is possible to use various freely available utilities to decode tnef
packets.


Fil


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