Email attachment.dat

[John Summerfield]

Simon Slater wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 10:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Simon Slater wrote:
>>> 	G'day again
>>> 		This may be a ver basic or even stupid question, but I'll ask anyway
>>> (if I show my ignorance, hopefully I can increase in knowledge).  Some
>>> emails received have an attachment called attachment.dat.  What is this
>>> for and what is in it?  I do not open attachments unless I know who they
>>> are from & what they are for.
>> Strangely enough this was just discussed on the RHELv5 list....
>>
>> Go here:
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
>>
>> and check out the archives with the subject "[rhelv5-list] winmail.dat"
>>
> Thanks Ed

i'm the one who proposed the original question (and I'm very happy with 
the answer, especially as there's a debianesque box here where an 
apt-get install tnef got the requisite software.

However, I'm not sure that "attachment,dat" is the same thing, tho it 
won't  hurt to fine out.

Most important is the source of the email; if its' from someone you 
don't know claiming to be in hospital nearing death and with the small 
some of $US10,000,000 or so looking for a good home, well I've had two 
of those today. OTOH they didn't have attachment.dat on them either, 
that I noticed.



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