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Scott Melendez
Why is it that email messages from Outlook users come through either in
plain-text and/or with a WINMAIL.DAT file?
plain-text and/or with a WINMAIL.DAT file?
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Dave Cortright
Why is it that email messages from Outlook users come through either in
plain-text and/or with a WINMAIL.DAT file?
Because Outlook can send a proprietary ³RTF² format that Entourage (or any
other app for that matter) can¹t understand. You should ask these senders to
use HTML instead, or you can use the TNEF¹s Enough utility to decode them.
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Barry N. Wainwright
Why is it that email messages from Outlook users come through either in
plain-text and/or with a WINMAIL.DAT file?
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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Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the Entourage FAQ pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
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