From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80909 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] winmail.dat Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:06:06 +0000 Message-ID: <87mx9l4969.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <871uqynp55.fsf@gmx.ch> <87d3aixd6p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326881201 8581 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2012 10:06:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:06:41 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29191@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 18 11:06:37 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 1RnSPc-0001lp-QO for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:06:37 +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 1RnSPR-0003kN-9Q; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:06:25 -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 1RnSPQ-0003kE-5c for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:06:24 -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 1RnSPB-0007U9-QT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:06:24 -0600 Original-Received: from vscani-d2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.133]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnSPA-0008SX-9H for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:06:08 +0100 Original-Received: from pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk ([128.40.74.171] helo=localhost) by vscani-d.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RnSP8-0003W8-HT for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:06:06 +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: (Didier Verna's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:15:41 +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:80909 Archived-At: Didier Verna writes: > Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> 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. > > Thanks (and to Mark for writing it). That's a nice workaround. Glad this is useful to you. However, it would be nice if some gnus wizard could show us how to automate the extraction of winmail.dat into attachments that can be processed as normal. Is such a thing possible? I don't want to even see the winmail.dat file... thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.92.1 + No Gnus v0.18