Re: winmail.dat
Am 18.07.2011 16:17, schrieb Jostein Berntsen: On 18.07.11,13:27, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: Am 18.07.2011 12:20, schrieb Christian Brabandt: On Mon, July 18, 2011 9:45 am, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: Hi. I'm running Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) under Ubuntu and was wondering why mutt couldn't cope with some mail I got, containing an attachment, named winmail.dat (MS Outlook). Mutt wasn't able to unpack the two JPG files that were packed into that winmail.dat container. I asked the friend to send the same email to another account where I hat thunderbird (5.0) and I was able to see the attachments (JPGs) without seeing something of winmail.dat at all. Also forwarding the mail from mutt to the other account didn't help. I then saw a winmail.dat as an attachment and TB didn't know what to do with it. -I 1no description [text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0,2K] A 2 winmail.dat[applica/ms-tnef, base64, 5,5M] Thanks, hope you don't mind me sending this back to the list. I got this tnef-package. What would now be the steps to make mutt to recognize an attachment named winmail.dat and usetnef to unpack it and show me the attachments when I v the email. At present it looks like this: -I 1no description [text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0,2K] A 2 winmail.dat[applica/ms-tnef, base64, 5,5M] I'd rather have it look like showing the IM000xx.JPG files or whatever winmail.dat is hiding to me. Try the steps listed for mutt and mailcap setup in the manual: http://linux.die.net/man/1/tnef Jostein Thanks. It works now. It's still this winmail.dat being displayed but when I type v, I'm prompted for extracting the contents. -- Christoph
winmail.dat
Hi. I'm running Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) under Ubuntu and was wondering why mutt couldn't cope with some mail I got, containing an attachment, named winmail.dat (MS Outlook). Mutt wasn't able to unpack the two JPG files that were packed into that winmail.dat container. I asked the friend to send the same email to another account where I hat thunderbird (5.0) and I was able to see the attachments (JPGs) without seeing something of winmail.dat at all. Also forwarding the mail from mutt to the other account didn't help. I then saw a winmail.dat as an attachment and TB didn't know what to do with it. -- Christoph
Re: winmail.dat
Christoph P.U. Kukulies writes: Hi. I'm running Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) under Ubuntu and was wondering why mutt couldn't cope with some mail I got, containing an attachment, named winmail.dat (MS Outlook). Ask the sender to configure their mail tool for plain text or html rather than rich text.
Re: winmail.dat
Am 18.07.2011 11:12, schrieb Lars Hecking: Christoph P.U. Kukulies writes: Hi. I'm running Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) under Ubuntu and was wondering why mutt couldn't cope with some mail I got, containing an attachment, named winmail.dat (MS Outlook). Ask the sender to configure their mail tool for plain text or html rather than rich text. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask why Thunderbird can process said email from that users' settings (outlook) and mutt cannot, rather than asking the sender to change something in his settings? -- Christoph
Re: winmail.dat
On 18.07.11,12:29, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: Am 18.07.2011 11:12, schrieb Lars Hecking: Christoph P.U. Kukulies writes: Hi. I'm running Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) under Ubuntu and was wondering why mutt couldn't cope with some mail I got, containing an attachment, named winmail.dat (MS Outlook). Ask the sender to configure their mail tool for plain text or html rather than rich text. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask why Thunderbird can process said email from that users' settings (outlook) and mutt cannot, rather than asking the sender to change something in his settings? In mutt you can use tnef to handle these type of attachments: http://linux.die.net/man/1/tnef In Thunderbird you can use ktnef. Jostein
Re: winmail.dat
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask why Thunderbird can process said email from that users' settings (outlook) and mutt cannot, rather than asking the sender to change something in his settings? The sender's settings are pre-MIME. MIME is a set of Internet mail standards that has been around in some form for nearly 20 years or so. Look up mailcap settings for application/ms-tnef, but in my personal opinion, this sort of thing should be discouraged.
Re: winmail.dat
Am 18.07.2011 12:20, schrieb Christian Brabandt: On Mon, July 18, 2011 9:45 am, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: Hi. I'm running Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) under Ubuntu and was wondering why mutt couldn't cope with some mail I got, containing an attachment, named winmail.dat (MS Outlook). Mutt wasn't able to unpack the two JPG files that were packed into that winmail.dat container. I asked the friend to send the same email to another account where I hat thunderbird (5.0) and I was able to see the attachments (JPGs) without seeing something of winmail.dat at all. Also forwarding the mail from mutt to the other account didn't help. I then saw a winmail.dat as an attachment and TB didn't know what to do with it. - I 1 no description[text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0,2K] A 2 winmail.dat[applica/ms-tnef, base64, 5,5M] Thanks, hope you don't mind me sending this back to the list. I got this tnef-package. What would now be the steps to make mutt to recognize an attachment named winmail.dat and usetnef to unpack it and show me the attachments when I v the email. At present it looks like this: - I 1 no description[text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0,2K] A 2 winmail.dat[applica/ms-tnef, base64, 5,5M] I'd rather have it look like showing the IM000xx.JPG files or whatever winmail.dat is hiding to me. -- Christoph
Re: winmail.dat
On 18.07.11,13:27, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: Am 18.07.2011 12:20, schrieb Christian Brabandt: On Mon, July 18, 2011 9:45 am, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: Hi. I'm running Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) under Ubuntu and was wondering why mutt couldn't cope with some mail I got, containing an attachment, named winmail.dat (MS Outlook). Mutt wasn't able to unpack the two JPG files that were packed into that winmail.dat container. I asked the friend to send the same email to another account where I hat thunderbird (5.0) and I was able to see the attachments (JPGs) without seeing something of winmail.dat at all. Also forwarding the mail from mutt to the other account didn't help. I then saw a winmail.dat as an attachment and TB didn't know what to do with it. - I 1 no description[text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0,2K] A 2 winmail.dat[applica/ms-tnef, base64, 5,5M] Thanks, hope you don't mind me sending this back to the list. I got this tnef-package. What would now be the steps to make mutt to recognize an attachment named winmail.dat and usetnef to unpack it and show me the attachments when I v the email. At present it looks like this: - I 1 no description[text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0,2K] A 2 winmail.dat[applica/ms-tnef, base64, 5,5M] I'd rather have it look like showing the IM000xx.JPG files or whatever winmail.dat is hiding to me. Try the steps listed for mutt and mailcap setup in the manual: http://linux.die.net/man/1/tnef Jostein
Re: winmail.dat
Quoth Christoph P.U. Kukulies on Monday, 18 July 2011: Am 18.07.2011 12:20, schrieb Christian Brabandt: On Mon, July 18, 2011 9:45 am, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: Hi. I'm running Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) under Ubuntu and was wondering why mutt couldn't cope with some mail I got, containing an attachment, named winmail.dat (MS Outlook). Mutt wasn't able to unpack the two JPG files that were packed into that winmail.dat container. I asked the friend to send the same email to another account where I hat thunderbird (5.0) and I was able to see the attachments (JPGs) without seeing something of winmail.dat at all. Also forwarding the mail from mutt to the other account didn't help. I then saw a winmail.dat as an attachment and TB didn't know what to do with it. - I 1 no description[text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0,2K] A 2 winmail.dat[applica/ms-tnef, base64, 5,5M] Thanks, hope you don't mind me sending this back to the list. I got this tnef-package. What would now be the steps to make mutt to recognize an attachment named winmail.dat and usetnef to unpack it and show me the attachments when I v the email. At present it looks like this: - I 1 no description[text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0,2K] A 2 winmail.dat[applica/ms-tnef, base64, 5,5M] I'd rather have it look like showing the IM000xx.JPG files or whatever winmail.dat is hiding to me. -- Christoph Personally, I use the 'v' function to view the contents of the tnef file rather than to unpack it. Thusly in .mailcap: application/ms-tnef;tnef -t %s; copiousoutput; needsterminal; Then, in .muttrc I map Ctrl+t in the attachments menu to unpack the attachment into a special folder (~/Mail/attach) so I can then go view the attachments from the shell: macro attach \Ct |tnef --overwrite -C ~/Mail/attach\n Unpack TNEF attachment I suppose it would be possible to create a macro that does the unpack and view all contents all in one step, but that's going too far down the automatically trust anything you get in an email road for my tastes. -- .O. | Sterling (Chip) Camden | http://camdensoftware.com ..O | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com OOO | 2048R/D6DBAF91 | http://chipstips.com pgpoK1DNRmKeK.pgp Description: PGP signature
