Re: what do you do to read "winmail.dat" attachments?
* Troy Piggins <troy@xxxxxxxxx> :
> * Henry Nelson <netb@xxxxxxxxxx> :
> > One person keeps sending me attachments called "winmail.dat".
> > Mutt shows these as: A 2 winmail.dat
> > [applica/ms-tnef, quoted, 289K].
> >
> > What are these attachments, and is there a way to convert them
> > to text to display them in Mutt?
>
> Here's a standard reply I give to senders I get those from:
>
[snip]
> Look into the applications 'tnef' and 'mpack' to handle it at
> your end. 'Munpack' (included with mpack) will extract the
> winmail.dat file, or you can just save it from within mutt.
>
> Then convert the winmail.dat file with tnef.
>
> Sometimes those winmail.dat files are empty/contain nothing,
> sometimes they contain real attachments.
Oops, forgot to say that you can add this to your $HOME/.mailcap
file:
application/ms-tnef; tnef -w %s
and when you try to open the attachment in mutt you can extract
the files inside the winmail.dat.
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Troy Piggins
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