Dave Dodge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 10:49:53AM -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > > Hi, this isn't a strictly mutt related question as it can be reproduced > > on every Linux email client sending attachments to new versions Outlook > > (from 2007+). > > > > When we send emails with attachmets to Outlook, the receiver sees the > > attachment as "winmail.dat" instead of what we've sent. > > If you mean that you attach the file and send it from Outlook, and > then the Linux recipient views the message and sees a "winmail.dat" > file, then that is a very well known problem with Outlook. Here's > Microsoft's support page explaining how to fix Outlook: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061
also, if you are unable to get all outlook-using senders to change their outlook configuration (quite possible), then there are programs that can filter mail messages that contain winmail.dat attachments and convert them into normal messages with normal attachments. one such program is available at http://raf.org/textmail/ but there are probably better ones out there. textmail could be used in a procmail recipe like the one below to just translate winmail.dat attachments and nothing else: :0 fw ! textmail -WEHRPLIAVXBS > If you instead mean that mail sent by Linux users show up with > "winmail.dat" when viewed in Outlook, then that is bizarre. If this > is happening, then all I can think is that there must be something on > the Windows receiving end that is manipulating the messages and adding > the winmail.dat; perhaps a filter or relay in an Exchange server. agreed. it's only outlook that creates winmail.dat attachments. even if something else is doing it, you'd think that outlook would be able to interpret the contents of a winmail.dat attachment and display them properly. > -Dave Dodge/dodo...@dododge.net cheers, raf
