[Hidden-tech] winmail attachments

[Jeff Rutherford]

Will,

Several people have tried sending me vCards and they arrive as a  
Winmail.dat file in Mac Mail.

Just FYI.

Jeff

Jeff Rutherford
jeff at jeffrutherford.com
413 369-4128 - phone
866 677-4108 - fax
Skype: JeffRutherford
AIM: jeffreyrutherfrd



On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Will Loving wrote:

> vCards are a standard format not MS specific. You can simply drag  
> and drop a vCard onto Address Book and have it create a new record  
> populated with the vCard data.
>
>
> on 2/6/07 1:07 PM, Jeff Rutherford at jeff at jeffrutherford.com wrote:
>
>>   ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
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>>
>> Here's a related question.
>>
>> Anyone know of any shareware or other utility for converting  
>> Microsoft Windows Outlook Vcards to Mac Mail?
>>
>> Let me know if you know of an easy solution.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff Rutherford
>> jeff at jeffrutherford.com
>> 413 369-4128 - phone
>> 866 677-4108 - fax
>> Skype: JeffRutherford
>> AIM: jeffreyrutherfrd
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Greg Caulton wrote:
>>
>>>    ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
>>>    ** You too can help the group
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>>>
>>>
>>>  Hi All!
>>>
>>> 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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>>>
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