How to open winmail.dat attachments
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows? This page offers a solution,(http://www.fentun.com/linux.html) but are there any better (more modern) solutions? - -- Regards Kenneth Aar -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFUb7yMrkZx1uu3OwRAggeAKD5NDXmTShg4FxPn6i2VwNxgtQ8TACguL0h ic3/O6UcmLOdkAv95moQve8= =PY/U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows?
winmail.dat files are created by MS Outlook and contain something called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format. Basically it's MS's attempt at using nonstandard formats to try and preserve formatting and font styles in the email. YMMV, but you should be able to simply ignore them. They are irrelevant and contain no data of interest other than font styles and colors etc. C .
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 06:42, Clayton wrote:
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows?
winmail.dat files are created by MS Outlook and contain something called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format. Basically it's MS's attempt at using nonstandard formats to try and preserve formatting and font styles in the email.
YMMV, but you should be able to simply ignore them. They are irrelevant and contain no data of interest other than font styles and colors etc.
Don't believe this is entirely true. I have received winmail.dat files from folks using Outlook that contained photo attachments... and photos that I dearly wanted to see.
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 06:42, Clayton wrote:
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows? winmail.dat files are created by MS Outlook and contain something called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format. Basically it's MS's attempt at using nonstandard formats to try and preserve formatting and font styles in the email.
YMMV, but you should be able to simply ignore them. They are irrelevant and contain no data of interest other than font styles and colors etc.
Don't believe this is entirely true. I have received winmail.dat files from folks using Outlook that contained photo attachments... and photos that I dearly wanted to see.
Microsoft have several Knowledge Base entries about this, here is one: Additional file Winmail.dat is included in received messages that are sent by Outlook 2000 (IMO) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196784 If you keep receiving these attachments from the same sender then request plain-text messages instead. Just tell the sender that proprietary e-mail formats doesn't fly on the standards based Internet... ;-) -- Geir A. Myrestrand
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 06:42, Clayton wrote:
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows? winmail.dat files are created by MS Outlook and contain something called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format. Basically it's MS's attempt at using nonstandard formats to try and preserve formatting and font styles in the email.
YMMV, but you should be able to simply ignore them. They are irrelevant and contain no data of interest other than font styles and colors etc.
Don't believe this is entirely true. I have received winmail.dat files from folks using Outlook that contained photo attachments... and photos that I dearly wanted to see.
To get the contents of the Winmail.dat you need to decode the Microsoft TNEF format, on Linux you can use tnef: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef -- Geir A. Myrestrand
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 10:04, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 06:42, Clayton wrote:
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows?
winmail.dat files are created by MS Outlook and contain something called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format. Basically it's MS's attempt at using nonstandard formats to try and preserve formatting and font styles in the email.
YMMV, but you should be able to simply ignore them. They are irrelevant and contain no data of interest other than font styles and colors etc.
Don't believe this is entirely true. I have received winmail.dat files from folks using Outlook that contained photo attachments... and photos that I dearly wanted to see.
To get the contents of the Winmail.dat you need to decode the Microsoft TNEF format, on Linux you can use tnef:
I believe the tnef program is in the SuSE distribution.
--
Geir A. Myrestrand
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 10:04, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote:
To get the contents of the Winmail.dat you need to decode the Microsoft TNEF format, on Linux you can use tnef:
I believe the tnef program is in the SuSE distribution.
I did not see it on a SLP 9.3 machine I have access to, but maybe that
was not a full install.
I checked my SLES 10 machine, and it includes perl-Convert-TNEF:
# rpm -qa | grep -i tnef
perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-274.2
# rpm -qi perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-274.2
Name : perl-Convert-TNEF Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 0.17 Vendor: SUSE LINUX
Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 274.2 Build Date: Fri Jun 16
11:47:53 2006
Install Date: Thu Oct 19 14:17:13 2006 Build Host: willimas.suse.de
Group : Development/Libraries/Perl Source RPM:
perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-274.2.src.rpm
Size : 38766 License: Artistic License
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri Jun 16 12:05:21 2006, Key ID a84edae89c800aca
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Summary : Perl module to read TNEF files
Description :
Perl module to read TNEF files
Authors:
--------
Douglas Wilson
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 16:12, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 10:04, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 06:42, Clayton wrote:
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows?
To get the contents of the Winmail.dat you need to decode the Microsoft TNEF format, on Linux you can use tnef:
I believe the tnef program is in the SuSE distribution.
If you have kde then ktnef should already be installed (its in kdepim3, where there is also kmail etc.) and you should be able to open winmaildat with a right-click, as I wrote few hours ago ;-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch
Daniel Bauer wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 16:12, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 10:04, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 06:42, Clayton wrote:
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows? To get the contents of the Winmail.dat you need to decode the Microsoft TNEF format, on Linux you can use tnef:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef I believe the tnef program is in the SuSE distribution.
If you have kde then ktnef should already be installed (its in kdepim3, where there is also kmail etc.) and you should be able to open winmaildat with a right-click, as I wrote few hours ago ;-)
Daniel
Ooops....I never got that message...maybe delayed somewhere... Sorry Daniel, I did not mean to "steal your thunder". -- Geir A. Myrestrand
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 12:26, Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no wrote:
Hi
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without windows?
This page offers a solution,(http://www.fentun.com/linux.html) but are there any better (more modern) solutions?
ktnef (a kde app) seems to be made for this. I havn't used it, at least not knowingly . Last time I saw a winmail.dat file was when a friend (using XP!) couldn open it and forwared it to me. I don't remember exactly, but hoovering (or right-clicking?) the attachement string showed me that it contained a pdf and I could open it directly. Maybe Kmail involved ktnef automatically? I could then save the pdf as a pdf, send it back to the M$ user, telling him that he needs to switch to Linux if he wants to deal with M$-files successfully :-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch
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