From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35431 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dnc@bigfoot.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: winmail.dat attachments Date: 20 Mar 2001 13:29:12 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171176 3042 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:32:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 24028 invoked by alias); 20 Mar 2001 21:25:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24023 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2001 21:25:30 -0000 Original-Received: from new-gw1.webmethods.com (HELO nexus.webmethods.com) (208.234.160.250) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Mar 2001 21:25:30 -0000 Original-Received: from PONDEROSA (corp-210.activesw.com [172.20.6.210]) by nexus.webmethods.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00872 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:25:36 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 27 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35431 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35431 I often receive attachments called simply "winmail.bat" of type application/ms-tnef. Often I can ignore these, but sometimes they contain attachments that I'm geniunely interested in. (At least I think they do.) Can gnus handle these properly? I suspected this was a FAQ, so I did a few minutes research on the web. I saw some comments to the effect that winmail.dat simply contained underlining, font and other rich text information, and therefore it was safe to ignore it (because you still get the email text). But I don't think this is correct. I think these days winmail.dat can actually contain other attachments. I also saw a post (from Simon if memory serves) referring to an application 'tnef2txt' which could grok this garbage, but I haven't been able to find tnef2txt. I suspect it will not work with the attachments, anyway. So I apologize if this is a faq. I'm hoping to get some accurate information, and hopefully get these attachment to work with gnus, cause I'm tired of asking people to resend attachments to me. (Although I never tire of telling them how lame their email client is). BTW I'm using Gnus 5.8.8 on Windows 2000. Thanks. -Dave