Allow winmail.dat attachment

[Brendan Chard]

Here are my current settings in MailScanner.conf pertaining to the TNEF
attachments:

Expand TNEF = yes
Deliver Unparsable TNEF = yes
TNEF Expander = /usr/local/bin/tnef --maxsize=100000000
TNEF Timeout = 120

But it sounds like I should try this before delivering unparsable
attachments:

Expand TNEF = yes
Deliver Unparsable TNEF = no
TNEF Expander = internal
TNEF Timeout = 120

Is that correct?

-Brendan


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Jan-Peter Koopmann
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:21 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Allow winmail.dat attachment

On Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:33 AM Brendan Chard <mailto:chardlist at CHARD.NET>
wrote:

> I found the option in MS that allows delivery of unparsable
> TNEF attachments and that has solved my problem.  I have a
> lot of Outlook 98/2000 users, so those are the breaks.

Watch it. That is NOT what you want! If a TNEF attachment is unparsable, you
do NOT want to deliver it. You need to use the external TNEF decoder or the
internal perl one (which always seemed more compatible to me).

Regards,

Jan-Peter Koopmann
Dipl.-Wirtschaftsinformatiker
Senior Engineer

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