On 22 Jan 2010, at 09:55, Phil Ward wrote: > I have a client from whom I receive many emails from numerous different > employees. In one case however, any email attachments are encoded as > winmail.dat files, which I than have to jump through hoops to extract and > read. The IT manager at the client says there's nothing she can do to fix the > issue (I suspect the problem is that it's a long way down her list of things > to do), but surely it's simply that this one guy has his email client > (Outlook I think) set up to encode attachments differently. So does anybody > know what Outlook preferences I should ask him to tweak?
Phil, Take a look at > OMiC: Plugin to extract winmail.dat files. Sooner or later, all Mail.app > users who have any kind of email communication with Outlook users will get a > message containing the dreaded unopenable winmail.dat file. A utility called > TNEF's Enough can extracts the file buried inside. It can really save your > bacon. Now a developer has wrapped the utility into a Mail.app bundle which > automatically recognises incoming emails with winmail.dat attachments. > Shareware (5 euros = USD 6.30). http://www.restoroot.org/OMiC/en/index.php has a video that shows how it works. Regards, Tony -- Tony Crooks <mailto: [email protected]> 53 Mendip Avenue Eastbourne BN23 8HP Mob: 07590508079 Tel: 01323-460789 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
