[wellylug] winmaildat

[Stephen Judd]

Quoting Brenda Wallace <brenda at wallace.net.nz>:

> texstar's evolution -> never had a problem , 100% stable for > 3
> months.
> i was using a mandrake version, which would not refresh imap folders if
> you had that folder open, so i never noticed new emails..
> 
> as for viewing source, that then shows me the binary that is in the
> winmail.dat file.
> this often happens when outlook sends an email with an attachment.
> the attachment and some other stuff ends up in the winmail.dat file.
> 
> I'm told by a friend that this is used by outlook to add extra info
> about the attachment. there must be a way to read file this in linux?

winmail.dat is an attachment of type "ms/tnef". Jolly old Outlook uses this in
badly configured Outlook/Exchange setups to encode "rich text".

Recent evolution versions just take care of these Outlook-droppings. Otherwise,
you can use this - http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/- to read them.

Stephen