From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to deal with winmail.dat in Gnus Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 11:27:14 -0700 Message-ID: <87r1x5g2v1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <86o8sb1wa0.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <87imijlg8z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="102783"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric S Fraga Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 02 20:27:55 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jK4ZH-000Qdy-CY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2020 20:27:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45882 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jK4ZG-0002jR-DX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55625) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jK4Ym-0002gU-Rw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jK4Yl-0005Gv-PS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ericabrahamsen.net ([52.70.2.18]:46356 helo=mail.ericabrahamsen.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jK4Yl-00058y-M4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (c-73-254-86-141.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [73.254.86.141]) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3F24FA16C; Thu, 2 Apr 2020 18:27:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87imijlg8z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:14:36 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 52.70.2.18 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122738 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga 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.