powermail-discuss Digest #2915 - Friday, December 24, 2010
Feature Request: TNEF support
by "Marco Piovanelli" <marco.piovane...@pobox.com>
Re: Feature Request: TNEF support
by "Tim Lapin" <t...@sympatico.ca>
Re: Feature Request: TNEF support
by "Gruetzner Urs" <u...@mac.com>
Happy Holidays!
by "A-NO-NE Music" <anonemu...@mac.com>
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Subject: Feature Request: TNEF support
From: "Marco Piovanelli" <marco.piovane...@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:50:53 +0100
Hello,
Over the last few years, I've been getting more and more mail
with attachments wrapped in "winmail.dat" files. These are
files in a horribly proprietary format misnomered "Transport
Neutral Encapsulation Format", or TNEF for short, created by
Microsoft (who else?) in total disregard for the well-entrenched,
very well-documented MIME Internet standard that has been used
by the rest of the computing universe since the early '90s.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format>
As much as I personally despise TNEF, I'm getting tired of having
to use third-party tools to manually decode winmail.dat files, and
I'd rather my favorite mail client handled such decoding automatically.
So I'd like to respectfully ask CTM Dev to consider adding support
for automatic TNEF decoding to a future version of PowerMail.
-- marco
--
It's not the data universe only, it's human conversation.
They want to turn it into a one-way flow that they have entirely
monetized. I look at the collective human mind as a kind of
ecosystem. They want to clear cut it. They want to go into the
rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.
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Subject: Re: Feature Request: TNEF support
From: "Tim Lapin" <t...@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:04:21 -0500
I'm afraid it has very little to do with PowerMail or indeed any other email
client *other than* Outlook. The problem arises when an Outlook user sends an
attachment with an email that has been sent in RTF format. Only users of
Outlook will be able to read that email. The TNEF format used by Outlook is
not quite the standard that it should be and as a result we get the mess you
are experiencing presently.
The solution is to get them to resend that message in either Plain Text
(preferred) or HTML format. In order to avoid the problem re-occurring, they
should change their permanent settings to either Plain Text or HTML.
I have had to reset many of my clients' Outlook settings to deal with this
issue and no doubt will have to do so in the future.
--
Tim Lapin
t...@sympatico.ca
On 2010-12-24, at 5:50 AM, Marco Piovanelli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Over the last few years, I've been getting more and more mail
> with attachments wrapped in "winmail.dat" files. These are
> files in a horribly proprietary format misnomered "Transport
> Neutral Encapsulation Format", or TNEF for short, created by
> Microsoft (who else?) in total disregard for the well-entrenched,
> very well-documented MIME Internet standard that has been used
> by the rest of the computing universe since the early '90s.
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format>
>
> As much as I personally despise TNEF, I'm getting tired of having
> to use third-party tools to manually decode winmail.dat files, and
> I'd rather my favorite mail client handled such decoding automatically.
>
> So I'd like to respectfully ask CTM Dev to consider adding support
> for automatic TNEF decoding to a future version of PowerMail.
>
>
> -- marco
>
> --
> It's not the data universe only, it's human conversation.
> They want to turn it into a one-way flow that they have entirely
> monetized. I look at the collective human mind as a kind of
> ecosystem. They want to clear cut it. They want to go into the
> rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: Feature Request: TNEF support
From: "Gruetzner Urs" <u...@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:05:40 +0100
TNEF is indeed a nightmare.
Consider also if your EMail Provider can decode already the TNEF. We have our
own MailServer with Communigate Pro Server and a TNEF decoder from Niversoft.
Works like a charm.
Urs
Am 24.12.2010 um 11:50 schrieb Marco Piovanelli:
> Hello,
>
> Over the last few years, I've been getting more and more mail
> with attachments wrapped in "winmail.dat" files. These are
> files in a horribly proprietary format misnomered "Transport
> Neutral Encapsulation Format", or TNEF for short, created by
> Microsoft (who else?) in total disregard for the well-entrenched,
> very well-documented MIME Internet standard that has been used
> by the rest of the computing universe since the early '90s.
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format>
>
> As much as I personally despise TNEF, I'm getting tired of having
> to use third-party tools to manually decode winmail.dat files, and
> I'd rather my favorite mail client handled such decoding automatically.
>
> So I'd like to respectfully ask CTM Dev to consider adding support
> for automatic TNEF decoding to a future version of PowerMail.
>
>
> -- marco
>
> --
> It's not the data universe only, it's human conversation.
> They want to turn it into a one-way flow that they have entirely
> monetized. I look at the collective human mind as a kind of
> ecosystem. They want to clear cut it. They want to go into the
> rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.
>
>
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Subject: Happy Holidays!
From: "A-NO-NE Music" <anonemu...@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:19:02 -0500
Happy Holidays!
A few selections from this year's holiday shows:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AAC08C3FACC6D0E2
Hope you enjoy :-)
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston
http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com
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