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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
> > >
> >
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