On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 12:12 +0200, Chris Blake wrote: > Greetings community, > > I need to open .dat files in Evolution. > > I searched the archives for a solution to this and only found this : > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2002-November/thread.html > > Reading all the mails that came up about this topic leaves me to believe > that Evolution can not yet open .dat files inline. > > I installed ytnef/tneg packages but this will only open the files if I > first save them to my drive and then run ytnef -f <filename>.dat, which > is not ideal. >
Not all .dat files are TNEF files - using a three letter extension to indicate the contents of a file is a microsoftism and extensions do not have any particular meaning to the operating system in Unix. Further, even under DOS, .dat is just a generic extension for files that contain "data". So making it so that *all* .dat files are displayed in-line as TNEF files is just wrong. As far as I know the TNEF files from MS packages are called "winmail.dat" and should have the appropriate mime type set - I *thought* that Evo was able to handle them, but I can't remember the last time I got one! P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
