Email attachment.dat

[Simon Slater]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 18:49 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> >> Go here:
> >>
> >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
> >>
> >> and check out the archives with the subject "[rhelv5-list]
> winmail.dat"
> >>
> > Thanks Ed
> i'm the one who proposed the original question (and I'm very happy
> with 
> the answer, especially as there's a debianesque box here where an 
> apt-get install tnef got the requisite software.
> 
> However, I'm not sure that "attachment,dat" is the same thing, tho it 
> won't  hurt to fine out.
> 
> Most important is the source of the email; if its' from someone you 
> don't know claiming to be in hospital nearing death and with the
> small 
> some of $US10,000,000 or so looking for a good home, well I've had
> two 
> of those today. OTOH they didn't have attachment.dat on them either, 
> that I noticed.
> 
I saved one such file to Desktop and KDE saw it as HTML. Opening in
Konqueror showed the text in an unformatted block and again as
formatted.  The pictures were not visible though.


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Regards
Simon