From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to deal with winmail.dat in Gnus Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 10:32:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20200401083252.GD30804@tuxteam.de> References: <86o8sb1wa0.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IU5/I01NYhRvwH70" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="109047"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 10:33:24 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 1jJYoN-000SHU-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:33:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48938 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jJYoM-0001SO-3i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jJYo1-0001SD-Tn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJYo0-0005vm-GU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:33:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:58570) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJYnz-0005n2-Tg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:33:00 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:Date; bh=jGyEv8isHnNwrdMwKPQI11WbrIfkyb2kmAYC2axFmOM=; b=diymH+4DGHM8qPe+igWvcej4YlSzREE8p/J5C5GVDxnLbnUjGWkcT3mZHqEce1fszV6qDRJ8CPw4jCGNOp4dyGN3QtYO9eRLWS4ohrfzRD88a92ryVuPw9a9aRmXPZhhHGr1Wm7aSaN3oK8FIOoRMYUDpw1L4hoK8jhk2VOWuYwhH9jcvJEKzQlGAMS9fBXxhZxmle7L9kxahiZCc10O3SybArexWuSEB8VVAR/ZvddvV7lEgN1+BAzxe0tN3sIqDCHKc74agrfX9dGyNJ7MQ56i7/SmYIq38JwfkKpmqECvQL8NK6exI/Zn3EkPHTXul0Nq2m7x6V0kHgWVi95vdQ==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1jJYns-0000Cp-6B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:32:52 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86o8sb1wa0.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 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:122724 Archived-At: --IU5/I01NYhRvwH70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 09:48:39AM +0200, H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote: > Hello Emacs-26.3 >=20 > 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") =66rom 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#De= coding -- t --IU5/I01NYhRvwH70 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAl6EUbQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kY00wCcDWqL06azXPza7ecmU/rrUNXb tuEAnRXha7Tb4MJG90MoPxGwI2qhu+Lr =0Cpe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IU5/I01NYhRvwH70--