Attachment (application\ms-tnef document) Entorage to Entorage

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Prometheusjp

When I recieve emails from other entorage users that have attachments
in them the attchment shows up as
Attachment (application\ms-tnef document)
I can reproduce this problem by sending myself an atachment and
encode it for any computer. Any sugestions on why this happens and
how to fix it.
 
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Barry N. Wainwright

Winmail.dat and/or application/ms-tnef files are sent by Windows users of
Outlook or Exchange who have their mail clients set up to use ŒRTF¹ instead
of plain text or HTML.

Usually they only contain a styled text version of the message you have just
read in plain text, but they can contain encoded attachments that you can¹t
usually get to.

Fortunately, there is an excellent little application that lets you read
these files and extract the attachments, called ³TNEF¹s Enough², by Josh
Jacob. Here¹s a link that should let you find it on VersionTracker:

<http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_F
ilter=MacOSX&search=tnef&x=14&y=8

Better still, contact you correspondent and ask them to reset their mail
client prefs to use plain text, or at worst, HTML.



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