[Hidden-tech] winmail attachments

[Todd M. LeMieux]

I use a Macintosh program called "TNEF's Enough" which allows one to 
look inside a winmail.dat file and extract the files you want. You can 
get it here:

http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/

There may also be other software out there that does the same thing. I 
find it easier to deal with this issue on my end rather than ask clients 
to change a few settings in their Outlook and to resend things to me.

Best,
Todd


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> Suggest your client explore the outlook menus - our experience is that 
> there
> are a number of ways of attaching documents in outlook and you can select
> if it is sent as winmail.dat or not.
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> Much easier than converting, and they are very much not just text.
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> (We don't use outlook so can't help with the specifics)
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> Rich
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>> Hi All!
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>> Has anyone had success converting "winmail" attachments to pdfs? 
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>> A client (on a PC) has emailed me what he believes are pdfs but have 
>> arrived on my Mac as <winmail.dat> files. Simply changing the 
>> extension to .pdf doesn't work -- Acrobat thinks they are corrupt.
>>
>> Opening the files with a text editor and printing them as pdfs 
>> attempts to create pdfs that are over 100 pages long, and I know they 
>> aren't that long.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Greg
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