Unfortunately, the same attachment does not arrive in the same
format. TNEF is the format used by Exchange. "Transfer Neutral
Encapsulation Format." The product I QA for can read these, but there
isn't any publicly available code that I'm aware of to decompose TNEF
files.
I'd bet that the "non-Outlook 2000" person is actually
non-Exchange, instead. All versions of Outlook support TNEF, however it
may also be that they have specified MIME or UUE as a transfer format
instead of "Auto."
On 03/12, Drew Fisher rearranged the electrons to read:
> I have a (hopefully) quick question to ask.
>
> I am running Mutt v1.3.14i and whenever I receive an email with
> an attachment from someone using Microsoft Outlook 2000, the
> attachment always comes up looking like:
>
> [-- Attachment #2 --]
> [-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Encoding: base64, Size: 32K --]
>
> [-- application/ms-tnef is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --]
>
> If I save the attachment to disk, StarOffice can NOT open the
> attachment.
>
> If I get the exact same attachment from someone who doesn't use
> Outlook 2000, it looks like:
>
>
> [-- Attachment #2: resume.1.doc --]
> [-- Type: application/msword, Encoding: base64, Size: 31K --]
>
> [-- application/msword is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --]
>
> Mutt seems to know about attachments from non-Outlook 2000 mail
> programs, but dies whenever I get anything from Outlook 2K.
>
> What can I do to fix (or get around) this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew Fisher
>
>
> ps. when I run mutt -v, I get this for the output:
>
> System: Linux 2.2.14-5.0 [using ncurses 4.0]
> Compile options:
> -DOMAIN
> +DEBUG
> -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE
> +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
> -USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_SASL
> +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
> +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
> +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
> +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
> +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
> +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
> +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO
> ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
> SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
> SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
> EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
> -MIXMASTER
> To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
>
>
