#1878 Content of winmail.dat is not displayed - MailMate

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#1878 new

Content of winmail.dat is not displayed

Reported by René Pirringer | 2017-11-21 07:43:46 UTC

I have received a mail from someone using outlook and the content is within a winmail.dat attachment that is not extracted. As far as I remember MailMate should support messages with winmail.dat content.
I have attached a screenshot of how the message looks in MailMate.

I using the latest Version: 1.9.7 (5425)

Screen_Shot_2017-11-21_at_08.37.25.png 133 KB

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benny 2017-11-21 08:15:21 UTC
Yes, it should work, but it does seem (on my machine on Sierra) that winmail.dat attachments are shown even when they have been extracted. It wasn't always like that. But I guess that is not the problem you have (there would also be a comment in the display about any attachments extracted).

Is it an email which you can share with me using “Help ▸ Send Feedback”? (Just drag the email into the Composer window.)
You flagged this item as spam.
René Pirringer 2017-11-21 08:57:46 UTC
You should have received a mail with a test message as attachment.
benny 2017-11-21 11:03:43 UTC
- State changed from “new” to “reproduced”
The tnef command used by MailMate fails to extract the attachments. I think the problem is a combination of a corrupted winmail.dat file (or at least an unusual one) and a problem with tnef. When trying to reproduce the issue I got different behavior from tnef depending on how I used it (separate file or stdin). I'm not sure I can easily work around this problem.

In any case, you should ask your correspondent to disable the creation of winmail.dat which there really is no reason to do. I think the following describes how to disable it.

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