From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to deal with winmail.dat in Gnus
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 10:32:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200401083252.GD30804@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86o8sb1wa0.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 09:48:39AM +0200, H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
> Hello Emacs-26.3
>
> 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.
This seems to be a TNEF (aka "Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format")
from Microsoft (God may have pity of their souls).
According to [1] there are a few options for normal folks to decode
that stuff.
> It seems that Gnus is just saving it as a winmail.dat file on the disc.
> What are you doing with such an abomination under GNU-Linux? ;-)
I try to get out of my way to avoid that stuff (that includes recommending
my customers to do the same -- think network effects and all that).
Cheers
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format#Decoding
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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 [this message]
2020-04-01 9:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-04-02 18:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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