From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80902 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Simpson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] winmail.dat Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:12:04 -0500 Message-ID: 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 1326846074 7156 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2012 00:21:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:21:14 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29184@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 18 01:21:10 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 1RnJH1-0001RR-CG for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:21:07 +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 1RnJFt-0001CV-Uh; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:19:57 -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 1RnJ8c-0001AS-Eo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:12:26 -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 1RnJ8a-0001kI-JO for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:12:25 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnJ8X-0002m5-Nl for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:12:21 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnJ8W-0005sI-P8 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:12:20 +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 ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:12:20 +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 ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:12:20 +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/24.0.92 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uveM2bRxCfjtyIL/Ebdo08AkcrI= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80902 Archived-At: 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 :) Hopefully it can be of some assistance. It is analogous to tar in that it is meant to unpack the attachments which might be hiding in the winmail.dat. It can also unpack the RTF markup of the mail message which is also packed up in the winmail.dat file. Ciao Mark