winmail.dat

[Jim Holland]

I guess I'll have to stay with the flow and top-post here :-)

I have long had complaints from users who are unable to open these things 
called winmail.dat because they aren't using MS Outlook.  So I consider it 
a plus that they now receive the message with the winmail.dat file removed 
and a helpful notice in its place . . .

It sounds as if some correspondents are having the full message blocked, 
and not just the attachment.  I assume that this is because they have not 
set:

	Deliver Cleaned Messages = yes

in MailScanner.conf

Mostly the files don't contain anything important, so can be ignored, but 
sometimes they do have documents or image files etc which the users do 
want to receive.  I would consider it a definite plus if there was an 
option to extract the contents and send them along instead - similar to 
the "Convert HTML To Text" option already available.

Regards

Jim Holland
System Administrator
MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> From what I've seen of the winmail.dat's I've had to release.. I'd say
> you'd have to unpack the thing with tnef......but I agree blanket ban on
> winmail.dat is harsh and I've to remove this check.
 
> > I have to second this idea.  I'm using 4.50.12 with the "deny winmail.dat"
> > line in filename.rules.conf and I've gotten some complaints about
> > rejected emails as a result.  Rejection is harsh if the winmail.dat
> > file can be snipped off without loosing the basic message.

> > > Is it possible to strip the RTF junk out of inbound RTF messages?
> > > (something like the strip HTML option)  I'm blocking them now via
> > > filetype but that's sorta draconian.  When HTML mail comes in, it often
> > > has a text component, and the HTML "attachment".  Does RTF do this too,
> > > or is the RTF MIME section the whole of the email?  I'm under the
> > > impression that the winmail.dat section is the mail and it isn't
> > > replicated in the text body area but don't really know that for sure.
> > > I'd like to let the message through but throw away the winmail.dat
> > > attachment if possible.