Hi Martin,

thanks a lot for the answer. I was aware of the problem and that it is
non RFC MS behaviour but I cannot influence the Exchange admins. I will
try to write a on the fly converter for mails containing a smime.p7m.
Just had hoped for an easy solution.

Thanks again
Jörg

Jörg Spatschil ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>)

Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Dept. IT Operations/Enterprise IT-Infrastructure Services
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A-1090 Wien
Austria
Tel.: (+43-1) 404 20 -2724 / Fax: (+43-1) 404 20 -2799

On 02/27/2014 03:38 PM, Martijn Brinkers wrote:
> Hi Jörg,
> 
> The problem is that the email is in an Exchange proprietary format (RTF
> aka winmail.dat). If you extract winmail.dat (for example using the
> linux tnef tool) you would find that it contains the smime.p7m
> attachment. Normally Exchange should not sent such an email to a
> non-exchange email address. Exchange should have converted the email to
> a normal MIME email and not an RTF email. The short term fix is to tell
> the sender to make sure that either Outlook or the Exchange server does
> not sent RTF emails (containing the winmail.dat file).
> 
> The following two links provide some background info and possible
> solutions to the RTF problem:
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061
> 
> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-outlook/prevent-winmaildat-attachments-when-sending-smime/b750d490-f060-418f-a343-4880c5f8aad3?msgId=412a8c91-1600-4db9-a1f3-f0d2a378fc1f
> 
> Note: emails containing winmail.dat can only be read with Outlook.
> 
> The long term solution would be to add a converter to convert the
> winmail.dat to a normal MIME email but this is an easy task.
> 
> On 02/27/2014 03:28 PM, Jörg Spatschil wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I receive s/mime encrypted mails from partners with outlook /exchange.
>> Some are packaged correctly (RFC) as Content-type:
>> application/x-pkcs7-mime, but some arrive as Content-Type:
>> application/ms-tnef; name="winmail.dat" which cannot be decrypted but
>> contains a valid s/mime. Is there an easy way to decrypt tnefs in Djigzo
>> or do I have to try to repack the mail?
>>
>> Thanks a lot for a great software.
>> Jörg
>>
>>
> 
> 
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