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On the exchange server, go to global settings, Internet Message Formats, Default Properties, Advanced tab, for “Exchange Rich-Text Format” select “Never Use”.
This will prevent your Exchangeserver from using Rich-Text Format and creating winmail.dat files.
From TNEF’s website:
TNEF’s Enough allows Macs to read and extract files from Microsoft TNEF stream files. The files are usually received by SMTP based e-mail programs from Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook users. The SMTP based e-mail program will usually receive either a MIME attachment named “winmail.dat” or a MIME attachment with the type “application/ms-tnef.”
The file is a rich text (or MAPI) message that is sent from Outlook to Exchange. When Exchange sends the message to an outside server it writes the MAPI message as a MIME attachment. The unfortunate side effect of this plan is if the Outlook user has someone in their address book as a person who can receive “Rich Text” then the user will receive the TNEF file whether the user uses Outlook or not.
TNEF’s Enough is a freeware application
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This problem also exists in Lotus Notes.
Here is the fix we used here for Lotus Notes to be able to open the Winmail.dat files.
Lotus Notes Fix
Also, there is a couple third party tools, that are free for the most part.
Fentun
WMDECODE
I’ve found that the Lotus Notes fix above does not always extract the attachment, so I have to try Fentun or WMDECODE. One of those tools will inevitably extract the attachments that are contained within the winmail.dat file.
I forgot to mention that I despise the audacity of MS to create this file because it ASSUMES that Outlook, or Outlook Express is on the other end, basically telling all other mail programs to go ‘F’ themselves.
PS: Here’s an official release from IBM/Lotus on this.
Fix to TNEF
You’ll notice they mention the same stuff I do, as I originally got the info from their forums.
PS: I don’t run that release/fix of Notes so I don’t have that ability to fix the problem on the fly.
Ha How has MS survived this long? By doing things just like this that makes people either run away screaming from MS or say lets just use all MS products and keep our fingers crossed that they play nicely…
I am really starting to love UBUNTU!
Ha How has MS survived this long? By doing things just like this that makes people either run away screaming from MS or say lets just use all MS products and keep our fingers crossed that they play nicely…
I am really starting to love UBUNTU!
You can also try the Mail.app Plug-in OMiC from http://www.restoroot.com to work with winmail.dat files
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The most convenient winmail.dat decoder for Windows is Winmail Opener
The most convenient winmail.dat decoder for Windows is Winmail Opener
The most convenient winmail.dat decoder for Windows is http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/” “>http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/” REL=”nofollow”>Winmail Opener
The most convenient winmail.dat decoder for Windows is http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/” “>http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/” REL=”nofollow”>Winmail Opener
Good read thanks for the info
Good read thanks for the info
More recently than the above, I have begun to get Email attachments in a .eml format that my Linux computer won’t open. It turns out that this is another brilliant MS idea that seems to originate in Outlook and is seemingly only something that Outlook handles.
My solution, so far, has been either to send the Email back to where it came from or simply delete it, unopened.
Has anyone discovered a Linux-compatible app for this crap?
Let me take a look around for you FastBullet!
TYVM !!
Try this one:
http://www.broobles.com/eml2mbox/
Only now did I get back here to find the link you left, Karl. I hope you didn’t think I’d lost interest or was too ignorant to respond.
I’ll give this little gem a try and let everyone know about the results.
I appreciate you taking the time to hunt this down.
No problemo! Let us know how it goes.
Just found out:
On the exchange server, go to global settings, Internet Message Formats, Default Properties, Advanced tab, for “Exchange Rich-Text Format” select “Never Use”.
This will prevent your Exchange server from using Rich-Text Format and creating winmail.dat files.