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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to deal with winmail.dat in Gnus
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:14:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imijlg8z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86o8sb1wa0.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de

On Wednesday,  1 Apr 2020 at 09:48, H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
> Today I sent to myself an email from Outlook with a PDF attachment and I
> received an email with a winmail.dat attachement!  Never seen such a
> thing in my live.

You need to tell Outlook to send using MIME, not it's own
"standard".  When our organization moved fully to Outlook, I spent the
first few months pointing this out to people.  Eventually, in our place,
the default was changed somehow.

On Linux, there's a tool called "tnef" which will decode these
files.  Not sure how to get gnus to apply that, however.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.6 on Debian bullseye/sid




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-01  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-01  7:48 How to deal with winmail.dat in Gnus H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-01  8:32 ` tomas
2020-04-01  9:14 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2020-04-02 18:27   ` Eric Abrahamsen

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