[Hidden-tech] winmail attachments

[Tom Adams / Reelife]

Todd,

Re: 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.
>>
I agree.  It's not good policy to ask your clients to do something that you can find a way of doing yourself.  : \


Regards,

Tom 

 
On Tuesday, February 06, 2007, at 01:49PM, "Todd M. LeMieux" <todd at toddlemieux.com> wrote:
>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.
>>
>> Much easier than converting, and they are very much not just text.
>>
>> (We don't use outlook so can't help with the specifics)
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> Greg Caulton wrote:
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>>> Hi All!
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>>> Has anyone had success converting "winmail" attachments to pdfs? 
>>>
>>> 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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