Vcards/winmail.dat

[Torbjørn Gundersen]

Hi everyone

I have a problem that's driving me crazy: When some of my co-workers are
forwarding vCards I only get winmail.dat files. I've tried TNEF's enough and
it's ok for almost every other type of attachment, but it's no good for
vCards. I have full acces to the pc's in question and I have altered e-mail
format to html instead of rtf, but I can't solve the problem.

I'm using Entorage ver. 11.1.0 (040913) the MS Outlooks are 2003 and XP.

My kingdom for a clue

Torbjørn Gundersen

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I have a problem that's driving me crazy: When some of my co-workers are
forwarding vCards I only get winmail.dat files. I've tried TNEF's enough and
it's ok for almost every other type of attachment, but it's no good for
vCards. I have full acces to the pc's in question and I have altered e-mail
format to html instead of rtf, but I can't solve the problem.

You should never be getting winmail.dat files from messages sent in HTML (or
plain text) from Outlook, only from messages sent in RTF. I'm finding it
hard to believe that these were HTML messages. Can you go back and
double-check?

I'm using Entorage ver. 11.1.0 (040913) the MS Outlooks are 2003 and XP.

Outlook 2003 now sends HTML by default, XP still sends RTF by default. But
the user can change the format easily. **Furthermore, the user can mark
contacts in the Address Book as designated to receive a specific non-default
format. (In XP, you could only set that to Plain Text, not HTML. But maybe
in 2003 you can also set it to RTF - I haven't checked. If so, that's what
could be happening here - contacts set to be sent RTF rather than HTML.)


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[Barry Wainwright]

You should never be getting winmail.dat files from messages sent in HTML (or
plain text) from Outlook, only from messages sent in RTF. I'm finding it
hard to believe that these were HTML messages. Can you go back and
double-check?

Outlook 2003 now sends HTML by default, XP still sends RTF by default. But
the user can change the format easily. **Furthermore, the user can mark
contacts in the Address Book as designated to receive a specific non-default
format. (In XP, you could only set that to Plain Text, not HTML. But maybe
in 2003 you can also set it to RTF - I haven't checked. If so, that's what
could be happening here - contacts set to be sent RTF rather than HTML.)

Furthermore, Winmail.dat and/or application/ms-tnef files are sent by
Windows users of Outlook or Exchange who have their mail clients set up to
use ŒRTF¹ instead of plain text or HTML.

Usually they only contain a styled text version of the message you have just
read in plain text, but they can contain encoded attachments that you can¹t
usually get to.

Fortunately, there is an excellent little application that lets you read
these files and extract the attachments, called ³TNEF¹s Enough², by Josh
Jacob. Here¹s a link that should let you find it on VersionTracker:

<http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_F
ilter=MacOSX&search=tnef& ;x=14&y=8