From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80908 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 08:43:04 +0000 Message-ID: <87ty3tqu4n.fsf@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 1326879667 18273 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2012 09:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:41:07 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29190@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 18 10:41:03 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 1RnS0q-0005ct-Bh for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:41:00 +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 1RnS0i-0003Zt-SU; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:40:52 -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 1RnS0h-0003Zj-NT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:40:51 -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 1RnS0g-0007G6-T1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:40:51 -0600 Original-Received: from vscani-e.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.33]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnS0b-0007tX-G8 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:40:45 +0100 Original-Received: from dip057.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk ([128.40.228.156] helo=localhost) by vscani-e.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RnS0Y-0001zZ-9J for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:40:42 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Mark Simpson's message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:12:04 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) 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 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:80908 Archived-At: Mark Simpson writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> >> 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. > > I'm the author of tnef - and I it tickles me to see someone mentioning it > before I did :) Well, then, let me take this opportunity to thank you for tnef! It's one of those tools that sits there behind the scenes, ready to do the job when needed. I don't use it often but when I do, it's indispensable. Thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1 + No Gnus v0.18