BadTNEF

[Denis Beauchemin]

I just looked at how often the external tnef decoder fails and it is
disturbing...  The following stats are from Oct 1st :
22102 winmail.dat seen (11040 corrupt 49.95%)

I already have switched to the internal decoder!

Denis

Le mer 03/12/2003 à 11:02, Denis Beauchemin a écrit :
> Le mer 03/12/2003 à 10:24, Julian Field a écrit :
> > Not really worth the effort any more. TNEF is now (thankfully) a rare 
> > sight, since Microsoft learnt the error of their ways and started using 
> > HTML instead.
> 
> Maybe some day they will be rare, but I get an average of 175 "Corrupt
> TNEF" messages per day using the external decoder (this includes
> weekends where they drop near zero).
> 
> I think I will try the internal one to see if it can do better.
> 
> Denis
> > 
> > At 14:54 03/12/2003, you wrote:
> > >Le mer 03/12/2003 à 09:33, Julian Field a écrit :
> > >
> > > > 3) The "tnef" program really couldn't decode the winmail.dat attachment in
> > > > the message
> > > > 4) You might be better off setting the location of the "tnef" program to
> > > > "internal" so that MailScanner uses the internal Perl module which is
> > > > slower but often better at decoding TNEF attachments (winmail.dat).
> > >
> > >Julian,
> > >
> > >Could MS be modified to use both tnef decoders if need be?
> > >
> > >Let's say the first decoder cannot analyze the winmail.dat file, then MS
> > >fires off the second one to try to do better.
> > >
> > >We could write something like:
> > >External TNEF Expander = /usr/bin/tnef --maxsize=100000000
> > >TNEF Expander = external internal
> > >
> > >Denis
> > >--
> > >Denis Beauchemin, analyste
> > >Université de Sherbrooke, S.T.I.
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Denis Beauchemin, analyste
Université de Sherbrooke, S.T.I.
T: 819.821.8000x2252 F: 819.821.8045