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