Entourage decoder for Winmail.dat - specifically vcard

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Harald Striepe

A coworker routinely forwards vcards for contact info, which show up as
winmail.dat.

I am simply surprised that Entourage cannot handle data from another MS
product - what is going on here?

Are there any 3rd party utilities?


Thanks,

-- Harald
 
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Barry Wainwright

A coworker routinely forwards vcards for contact info, which show up as
winmail.dat.

I am simply surprised that Entourage cannot handle data from another MS
product - what is going on here?

Are there any 3rd party utilities?


Thanks,

-- Harald
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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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