TNEF - attach winmail.dat contents to original email ?

[Scott Silva]

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Peter Russell wrote:
>>
>> Here is the problem:
>> We have some clients that continually receive winmail.dat files. 
>> Obviously, it be best if winmail.dat would just go away, but
>> unfortunately that is not that case ;) What we would like to do, is to
>> setup the MailScanner so that when the mail is processed it will go
>> ahead and unpack the winmail.dat file, extract the actual attachment,
>> scan it for viruses, and the re-attach that to the original email,
>> thus discarding the original winmail.dat file.  Thus the client does
>> not have to bothered with the winmail.dat file.
> 
> 
> Winmail.dat does not always mean that there is an attachment. It means
> that some one who has incorrectly configured their exchange server has
> allowed the iused of the Microsoft Rich Text for external emails and the
> formatting data is contained in the winmail.dat, not attachments.
> 
> Formatting data like outlook stationery, and horizontal rules and other
> formatting data.
> 
> You can safely delete them, but do it with a warning to the folks
> running exchange.
> 
> If the email had an attachment and was send from an incorrectly
> configured exvchange environment you wouild see 2 attachments, not the
> winmail.dat containing the 2nd attachment.
> 
>>
>> I looked through the MailScanner.conf and studied the TNEF settings,
>> but my understanding of them is that they unpack the winmail.dat so
>> that the file(s) can be scanned, then just sends the original email on
>> it way with the winmail.dat still attached. I am just hoping to take
>> this one step further.
>>
>> We are currently running MailScanner 4.41.3 on Fedora Core 3.
>>
>> Can this be accomplished through MailScanner, or should I even dive
>> down into setting up a sendmail filter?  I am open to any and all
>> suggestions.
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
> 
I have to dis-agree. winmail.dat can contain attachments as well as
formatting. All packed up with the TNEF encoder.
Another example of Microsoft's attempts at world domination.


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