Hi David,
On 11 February 2000 at 13:51:48 GMT +0000 (which was 13:51 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points:
DE> I am starting to receive emails with attachments with a MIME type
DE> of application/ms-tnef.
DE> What is this type? (apart from a devious Microsoft plot)
DE> Are there any tools for reading these attachments under Linux?
DE> Can some one either tell me what it is or where to look.
>From the Netscape web site:
> Question:
> What are MS-TNEF mail attachments?
>
> Answer:
>
> Those attachments contain Microsoft Exchange's rich text
> information, encoding attributes of the message such as boldface,
> underlining, fonts, and colors. Exchange/Internet Mail puts these
> attributes into an attachment so that they can appear to other
> Exchange users on the Internet. The problem arises when people not
> using Exchange receive these attachments: instead of seeing a
> formatted message, they see a big chunk of UUENCODE data named
> WINMAIL.DAT, or a section application/ms-tnef if you're using MIME
> (which is what Communicator uses). These attachments contain only
> formatting and are not important to the message itself.
>
> For communicating with users of other clients, Exchange contains an
> option to suppress sending rich text information when mailing them.
> You may want to contact the person who sends these attachments, and
> ask them to turn these off for messages sent to you. To do this,
> they need to double-click on your address and uncheck the box
> labelled "Send to this recipient in Microsoft rich text format."
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