Email attachment.dat

[John Summerfield]

Simon Slater wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 18:49 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
> I saved one such file to Desktop and KDE saw it as HTML. Opening in
> Konqueror showed the text in an unformatted block and again as
> formatted.  The pictures were not visible though.
> 

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