Hi Bruce et al... First of all I thanks to everyone, the tnef script did the job. I do not allow my wife on the 'net with her Dos/windows machine. I have enough problems without fixing her system daily. Therefore she gets all her email thru my Linux machine. One of her girlfriend sent pictures of a class reunion in Ulm Germany. The file's full name was "winmail.dat". I didn't know that the winmail meant anything. I use M$ as little as I can get away with. Anyway I got the file open and now my wife is (for a bit) happy with me. Thanks Guys! JIM On Friday 13 August 2004 04:15, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 12 August 2004 09:57 pm, Malke Routh wrote:
Yes, finding out what it is - as I suggested - is a good idea - *if* you can contact the person who sent it; i.e., the sender is someone you know. However, in Windows, .dat files are usually nothing you would normally send to anyone. If your wife is running Windows, sure - let her follow your "oh don't be silly" advice. She should make sure she has a current antivirus using updated definitions and scan for spyware afterwards.
There are versions of a Windows emailer (not sure it is Outlook or just a particular version of Outlook) that will put attachments in a *winmail.dat* file. The contents of these files can be extracted on linux using the tnef program.
The people who send these files don't usually have a clue that they are doing so since it is all done by the email program. Asking them won't yeild much information.
On the other hand, James never told us the complete name of the file.....
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