[Gllug] Mail with .dat attachment

[will]

tet at accucard.com wrote:

>>Anyone know what I can do with a .dat file that just arrived in an email.
>>The sender say's it is (or contains) a bitmap image.  file says it is
>>"Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format".  how do I open it?
>>
> 
> Option 1: tell her to resend with a proper email client
> Option 2: use the tnef program -- attached as an RPM because I couldn't
>           find the URL for the source, and I have the RPM lying around
> 
> 
>>Any tips as to what the sender can do to send it in another format
>>(She is using MS Outlook so I guess it's a bit OT)
>>
> 
> I haven't found any rhyme or reason to this. Outlook seems to pick an
> encoding for attachments entirely at random. Sometimes it does it properly,
> other times it uses MS-TNEF. Telling it to send mail in plain text rather
> that RTF seem to have good results, although why they format of the body
> of the message should affect the attachment encoding is beyond me (and
> probably anyone outside of Redmond).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Tet


Thanks, I think I am going to stick with the tried and trusted "Attach 
it properly or I won't read it" response which always seems to work :-)

if it is important they will resend it.

Will.




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