How do you get Outlook to generate a winmail.dat file? I'd
like to send
one to myself and open it on a Linux box so I can look at
it.
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From: ma-linux-bounces tux.org [mailto:ma-linux-bouncestux.org]
On
Behalf Of William Shotts
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:14 PM
To: bogiebogartearthlink.net
Cc: Ma linux; Novalug (E-mail); dclugtux.org
Subject: [ma-linux] Re: [dclug] decoding a winmail.dat file
on a linux
box
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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