[Mimedefang] winmail.dat / ms-tnef extracting

[hans hm04]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:24:44AM -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote:
> 
> >> some of e-mails we receive have attached
> >> a file "winmail.dat" and as we use lotus notes
> >> as central mail-hub, it isn't readable for
> >> the user.
> 
> 
> The short winmail.dat parts have no interesting data in them anyway.
> I have forgotten what Outlook clients send each other in there, but
> it is usually not a file attachment.


o.k. - the short winmail.dat's are empty
but in several others there are winword.doc and so on.
and as email administrators we do "as service
for our enduser" extract and forward those doc's & xls

only to say, "the others are wrong" brings sometimes 
the argument "with exchange we didn't have any problems" 

so i thought, maybe somebody did automate this process.
off course only those non-empty winmail.dat's

best regards
hans

p.s.: thank you to all of you for response. 


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