From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to deal with winmail.dat in Gnus
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 11:27:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1x5g2v1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imijlg8z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:14:36 +0100")
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 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.
You can pipe a part through an external program using "K |". I don't
know if it's possible to install an automatic filter when saving the
attachments with "X m". MIME terrifies me and I try to minimize my
interaction with it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-02 18:27 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
2020-04-02 18:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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