Problem winmail.dat and TNEF

[Alex Neuman]

That's why we should write our local legislators and make winmail.dat
punishable by tarring and feathering :-)



On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Mike Andrews <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:19:42PM +0000, mul wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i Have Mailscanner 4.83.25 as gateway for my exchange 2010.
> >
> > Some users receive bad mail with winmail.what is weird is that same
> email sent
> > from outside to multiple recipients, will be good for three users and
> the last
> > has winmail.dat.
>
> This is dependent on how the outside user sends the mail. I have had this
> exact problem many times. In each case where person X was getting
> winmail.dat
> attachments from <foocorp>, while others were getting HTML mail from the
> same
> sender, it has turned out that the sender at <foocorp> had set up mail to
> person X differently from the other recipients who were getting HTML mail.
>
> Each time, I have had the sender swear up and down that all recipients were
> set up the same way, and then received an apology from the sending site's
> mail admin.
>
> --
> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
> mikea at mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin
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