From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80901 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] winmail.dat Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:54:22 +0000 Message-ID: <87d3aixd6p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <871uqynp55.fsf@gmx.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326833734 21431 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2012 20:55:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:55:34 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29183@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 17 21:55:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnG3z-000883-71 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:55:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RnG36-0000LU-Js; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:54:32 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RnG35-0000LM-HF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:54:31 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RnG34-0004ze-AJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:54:31 -0600 Original-Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnG30-0006at-Ma for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:54:26 +0100 Original-Received: from [85.210.141.126] (helo=localhost) by vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RnG2x-0003g3-IY for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:54:23 +0000 X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <871uqynp55.fsf@gmx.ch> (Sven Bretfeld's message of "17 Jan 2012 19:46:14 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80901 Archived-At: "Sven Bretfeld" writes: > Didier Verna writes: > >> sometimes I receive attachments named winmail.dat in ms-tnef format. >> Gnus only show me this, although the gmail interface seems to be able to >> decypher what's inside (for instance, the last one was actually a pdf >> file). > > Had the same problem just today. I switched to Evolution with > plugins-experimental for this email. Know of no way that Gnus handles > these silly things. > > Sven > I cannot help you figure out how to get gnus to automatically decode a winmail.dat attachment (I *do* dislike Outlook intensely...) but, at least on linux, you can install the "tnef" [1] package which allows you to extract files from a winmail.dat file. Not ideal but at least it works. And then follow this up with an email to the offending sender with this link: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/microsoft-outlook-tnef.html which is an old document but I think probably applies (section 2). I've done this in the past and it has always worked! HTH, eric Footnotes: [1] http://tnef.sourceforge.net/ -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.92.1 + No Gnus v0.18