Re: [Evolution] MS's winmap.dat encoding in IMAP mail

["Ujwal S. Sathyam" <ujwal netbrowser com>]

Just a few days aga, there was mention of a program to decode the tnef
encapsulation. That might help:

http://world.std.com/~damned/software.html

Ujwal


On 11 Jul 2001 15:14:53 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> (I sent this using a non-subscribed email address the first time by
> mistake)
>
> Hi all,
>
> Many on this mailing list are probably aware of the difficulty in
> transferring mail from Microsoft Outlook 2000 to a non-proprietary
> format. I thought I had finally achieved this by storing all corporate
> mail in a PST file, transferring that mail to an Outlook client that
> uses Internet Only mail and then using Outlook to open that PST file and
> copy that mail to my own IMAP server using Outlook's built in IMAP
> functionality.
>
> I am now dismayed to have discovered that much of the mail can still
> only be properly read by Microsoft Outlook. The simple reason is that
> Microsoft encodes much of the mail I have been sent in Rich Text Format.
> When you try and view the messages in a non-MS email client many of the
> messages are missing sender details and many of the attachments become:
>
> Name: winmail.dat
> Type: application/ms-tnef
> Encoding: base64
>
> This is a real disappointment. Within those attachments are the actual
> attachments that have been encapsulated in Microsoft's proprietary
> format.
>
> I wonder if there is:
>
> (a) any way to decode these attachments under Linux (e.g. by re-encoding
> a plain text mailbox folder to remove the encapsulation).
>
> (b) Whether Evolution is aiming to support this encoding format.
>
> I have tried Netscape Messenger, Mozilla and Evolution and all just see
> winmail.dat attachments.
>
> Regards,
> Adam Warner
>
>
>
>
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