On Mon, December 21, 2015 1:14 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/21/2015 10:48 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Does someone do anything on your Linux (or UNIX) mail servers to convert >> darn proprietary MS Outlook winmail.dat attachments your users may receive >> (occasionally if lucky) into readable e-mail format. > > the vast majority of 'winmail.dat' files are just formatting hints for the message body. you can read the message without them. That's true, I've seen many of them like you describe, but the user who asked me about it gets mail with images attached and buried inside winmail.dat attachment. I'm going to see what I can do following the direction Frank Cox pointed (tnef). > > anyone using a halfway newer version of Microsoft's Outlook stuff shouldn't be generating them at all if their mailer is properly > configured. Properly configured, huh. Don't ask me what I think about percentage of properly configured MS Windows mail servers in comparison with Linux, Unix or Macintosh ones (yes, even Macintosh ones). I really don't want somebody offended ;-) Valeri > > -- > john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++