From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81210 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Simpson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] winmail.dat Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:48:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871uqynp55.fsf@gmx.ch> <87d3aixd6p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87mx9l4969.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <871uql6off.fsf@gnus.org> <87bopkauwz.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87fwev6avd.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328269852 26235 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2012 11:50:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:50:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29491@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Feb 03 12:50:51 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RtHfH-0006vW-5c for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:50:51 +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 1RtHdv-0004Lg-55; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:49:27 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RtHdt-0004LX-IJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:49:25 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RtHdm-0005Q4-LX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:49:23 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RtHdk-0002YC-Lk for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:49:16 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RtHdh-00067b-Re for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:49:13 +0100 Original-Received: from c-65-96-170-188.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([65.96.170.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:49:13 +0100 Original-Received: from damned by c-65-96-170-188.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:49:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-65-96-170-188.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Attribution: MJS User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AwR+liC9YQPrGa0XhIpbLAqkYzE= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81210 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > > If I understand things correctly, a winmail.dat file is just an archive? Essentially yes. MS-TNEF files can also include the RTF markup for the mail message itself and other meta-data about the message. Sometimes that is all that the file contains. Over the years maintaining my tnef program (tnef.sourceforge.net) I have gotten semi-regular emails from people asking me why my application didn't do anything with their attachment. It always resolves to the fact that it contains nothing but the markup. Probably the markup is not of particular interest to a GNUS user so it is fine to ignore it - just wanted to point out that some of them may appear 'empty'. Ciao Mark