winmail.dat

[Kevin Miller]

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

Not me.  <g>
 
> 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. 

So what do you have in your filename and filetype conf files?  How are
you filtering the winmail.dat?


...Kevin
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