As many know, Microsoft has blundered with their attachments. Some exchange servers send attachments in a proprietary TNEF format. Tried some tools, inluding a plug-in called LookOut for Thunderbird. No dice, remains undecipherable. Has anyone figured out a deciphering method that really works?
Supposedly this TNEF isn't even compatible with their own (!) Outlook Express. Sounds like a near perfect shot in the foot to me.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
have you tries the ones listed here?
Cheers
Outhouse Excuse?
Can you send me such an attachment and I'll take a look. ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Last time I had to do this (a few years ago), I downloaded a little freeware program that worked like a charm. It was stand-alone... you save the attachment then open it with the decoding program.
If it's not a really sensitive file, there's even a webpage that does it for you:
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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Thanks for the lead... fentun works great! ...Jim Thompson
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Maybe yes, maybe not ... So far Microsoft has being extremely successful shooting other people's feet.
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Thanks, Martin, I didn't know Fentun ran under XP. The other stuff is too clumsy, I don't want to install and compile this, that and the other thing just to read a file.
Some stuff such as LookOut plain did not work. Doesn't do a thing here.
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Then I'd get shot :-)
But I'll try Fentun.
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I saw that but my agreement almost specifies the gauge of the bullet that will be used if I ... :-)
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Except in Europe where the bullet ricocheted in a court room and came whizzing back at them.
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For OS X in Mac's, there's a program called TNEF's Enough.
You're right, TNEF is a PITA.
-- Tauno Voipio
So I tried Fentun. It no work. Maybe it expects *.tnf files. Anyhow, mine come as winmail.dat and although when storing it the file size is listed as about 1,400kB Fentun says it's zero and nothing gets extracted.
Hurumph ...
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What file extension did you feed it? *.dat? It won't eat those here.
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ESTO ?:-)
In Eudora, I right-clicked on winmail.dat, and selected "Open with", then fentun. Gave me a choice of extracting right there or a "Save as"... super, because I have a few nutcases that insist on using Outlook.
If you read the instructions, you'll note, if winmail.dat is just a repeat of the body text, nothing is shown... if you read the instructions, that is ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I did read those. Again, the stored winmail.dat file shows a size of
1.4MB while, when clicking on the same file in the email attachment, Fentun says "Untitled Attachment" and 0kB. Whatever might be in that file, Fentun doesn't see it.-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
It's a Window's world, I simply right-clicked on the attachment. ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
You're just lucky, Joerg ;-) I seem to benefit from many of the questions you pose.
When I clicked on an winmail.dat, it popped up, like so...
Then I noticed I have EOLSOFT Winmail Opener...
which works even better (I don't often get winmail attachments, so I forget what tools I already have on hand :-) ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Of course if it's much more important than a laundry list they shouldn't be sending it unencrypted from Outlook, but I don't imagine that was your idea.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
-- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
You get "Fan Mail" ? ;D
Cheers
Like with that Myriad Viewer :-)
Same here but it no work, the last window lists just one file name with the size zero :-(
Maybe I should try all those programs until one sticks :-)
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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