Jeremy Zawodny: Using Gmail to read those damned winmail.dat files!
Seems Jeremy hates winmail.dat files too:
The are various “free” winmail.dat readers around, but this is 2008 not 1998. I shouldn’t have to install the email equivalent of a “helper application” to read a fucking word doc that crappy email software couldn’t encode in a sane format.
Amen brother! Although many times it’s stupid Exchange administrators. In Exchange you CAN force anything in Outlook Rich Text format to convert to HTML before sending, but I see that winmail.dat file so much that it leads me to believe that many Exchange admins are a rare breed of stupid. And I WAS an Exchange admin… saddest time of my life!
January 16, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
Hi
Working at a client where they do frequent business with MS Exchange systems, I see plenty of that too. But my question to all is, would the builders of Domino R801 be able to build that “conversion utility” for an SMTP server handling inbound email traffic. Is there such a thing??
Regards
Jason
January 17, 2008 @ 9:04 am
I’ve run afoul of Winmail.dat a few times. What a pain in the ass. Just another way MS tries to enforce their crap as a standard.
Dumping Exchange last summer was one of the happiest times of my current job.
January 17, 2008 @ 10:25 am
Hey Jason, Notes 8 can already decode those files (called TNEF) you just have to add this line to your notes.ini.
TNEFEnableConversion=1
That’s it, hope it helps. Might make a whole entry as I think some people don’t know this!
-Grey