Hi Andre, I found a superuser answer that seems like it might be helpful in forcing Outlook to use TNEF.
http://superuser.com/questions/613014/how-do-i-force-outlook-to-send-an-email-message-to-have-a-winmail-dat-attachment#answer-638244 Hope that helps. Thanks, Bryan On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > I am aware of it, reason I called it out openly so if someone can try to > assist. > > In the past, I have used created content within the junit or crafted it > within my lab, but in the case of TNEF I could not find a way of creating > the files (POI does not have this ability and outlook seems convinced to > create proper HTML attachments). > > As consequence I reached to the files stored in here: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/tags/REL_3_14_BETA1/test-data/hmef/ > > I also checked their NOTICE or LICENSE files but no references, nor are the > the samples mentioned within their maven profiles. Not ideal but so far the > best I could find so far. Worse thing comes, we restrict the test units to > an invalid content, at least we will know it fails safely. :-) > > Hope this helps to clarify. > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Andre > > > > We cannot copy source material even for testing unless we fully and > > properly account for licensing and notice concerns. > > > > Thanks > > Joe > > > > On Aug 9, 2016 8:25 AM, "Andre" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > All, > > > > > > PR817[1] introduces an winmail.dat extractor. > > > > > > Following people's feedback, I created a separate processor to handle > the > > > TNEF attachments. > > > > > > This means the typical deployment will look like: > > > > > > (ListenSMTP || GetPOP3) --> ExtractEmailAttachments --> > RouteOnAttribute > > > [filename=winmail.dat] --> ExtractTNEFAttachments > > > > > > > > > Since I could not generate a TNEF (where are the winmail.dats when you > > need > > > them?!?!) I ended up using the TNEFs available on POI's upstream test > > > units. winmail.dat donations to improve the test unit coverage are > > > welcome... > > > > > > Please test, once you confirm this is working I will be happy to > create a > > > processor to extract and parse TNEF body and mapi Attributes as well. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > [1]https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/817/commits > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Toivo Adams <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I support Oleg opinion. > > > > Do one thing and do it well. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Toivo > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > View this message in context: http://apache-nifi-developer- > > > > list.39713.n7.nabble.com/ListenSMTP-processor-tp10510p12891.html > > > > Sent from the Apache NiFi Developer List mailing list archive at > > > > Nabble.com. > > > > > > > > > >
