[Gllug] Mail with .dat attachment

[tet at accucard.com]

>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

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