On Friday 12 September 2003 12:25, Brian Candler wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 06:02:50PM +0200, Davide Salerno wrote: > > Thank you very much Jab > > Your explanation for my issue was very good. But another strange thing is > > that sometimes certain attachments, such as .doc, are changed in .dat by > > sqwebmail indeed if I use Outlook Express as mail client to download and > > open them it works! How is it possible? > > I cannot make a point on it. Duh? > > If the attachment is called "winmail.dat" then this is a proprietry > Microsoft Outlook format for attachments (application/ms-tnef). It doesn't > follow any standard. Bill Gates only knows why they didn't just use the > standard MIME format for multipart attachments. > > You can decode these attachments under Unix using the program 'tnef'. But > Sqwebmail would have to jump through hoops to decode them.
My antivirus app (qmail-scanner) jumps through the necessary hoops to decode them. I don't really see why it would be difficult for sqwebmail to do the same. This sounds like needed, and relatively easily implemented, functionality to me. Just my 2 cents on the matter. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
