decoding a winmail.dat file on a linux box

All,

For the purposes of decency I will refrain from openly
expressing my 
discontentment and distain for the clueless individual who
has done this to 
me.

They have sent me a winmail.dat file and insist that I read
it's contents.  I 
have tried to walk them through cutting and pasting the
verbage they wish me 
to review into the body of an email, but due to a
combination of a language 
barrier and technical ineptness and cluelessness that the
whole universe 
doesn't revolve around redmond washington, I cannot get
them to understand 
that I cannot read their email, nor can I decode it on my
linux box.

I've been through about 15 pages of google searches, and
have found utilities 
that convert winmail.dat files to text, but unfortunately,
they all run on 
windoze (go figure).

Does anybody know of a way to decode a winmail.dat file on a
linux system and 
where I might find the program required to perform this
seemingly 
insurmountable task?

TIA,

Tim B.
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Tim Bogart <bogiebogartearthlink.net> writes:

> Does anybody know of a way to decode a winmail.dat file
on a linux
> system and where I might find the program required to
perform this
> seemingly insurmountable task?

  Silly stupid suggestion: have you tried 'strings'? 

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Tim Bogart wrote:
> Does anybody know of a way to decode a winmail.dat file
on a linux system and 
> where I might find the program required to perform this
seemingly 
> insurmountable task?
>
> TIA,
>
>   
This may or may not move you in the right direction, I
remember reading
that Mailscanner can handle this stuff. If you have access
to your mail
server you may be able to do the conversion there. I also
found this link...

http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermai
l/mailscanner/2006-April/060202.html
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Have you tried http://sourcefo
rge.net/projects/tnef/ ?

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On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 06:18:19AM -0400, Tim Bogart wrote:
>Does anybody know of a way to decode a winmail.dat file
on a linux system and 
>where I might find the program required to perform this
seemingly 
>insurmountable task?

Look for ytnef. The winmail.dat format is called
"tnef", which might 
help future searching.

Mike Stone
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Tim Bogart wrote:
> All,
> 
> For the purposes of decency I will refrain from openly
expressing my 
> discontentment and distain for the clueless individual
who has done this to 
> me.
> 
> They have sent me a winmail.dat file and insist that I
read it's contents.  I 
> have tried to walk them through cutting and pasting the
verbage they wish me 
> to review into the body of an email, but due to a
combination of a language 
> barrier and technical ineptness and cluelessness that
the whole universe 
> doesn't revolve around redmond washington, I cannot
get them to understand 
> that I cannot read their email, nor can I decode it on
my linux box.
> 
> I've been through about 15 pages of google searches,
and have found utilities 
> that convert winmail.dat files to text, but
unfortunately, they all run on 
> windoze (go figure).
> 
> Does anybody know of a way to decode a winmail.dat file
on a linux system and 
> where I might find the program required to perform this
seemingly 
> insurmountable task?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Tim B.
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> 
There is a tnef application in KDE (in kdepim).  It's
called ktnef.

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