[MlMt] winmail.dat attachments

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 11 Sep 2015, at 15:37, Bill Cole wrote:

> I can demo it. This is with r5122, but whatever I was running last 
> night had the same issue, as does tnef built by MacPorts:
>
> silverclam:~ dad$ 
> /Applications/MailMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/tnef 
> --unix-paths --list Winmail.dat
> silverclam:~ dad$  echo $?
> 0
> silverclam:~ dad$ 
> /Applications/MailMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/tnef 
> --unix-paths --list --save-body Winmail.dat
> message.rtf	|	message.rtf
> silverclam:~ dad$ ls -l message.rtf
> ls: message.rtf: No such file or directory
> silverclam:~ dad$ 
> /Applications/MailMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/tnef 
> --unix-paths --save-body Winmail.dat
> silverclam:~ dad$ ls -l message.rtf
> -rw-r--r--  1 dad  staff  40759 Sep 11 08:58 message.rtf

It appears to work for me (and some other users) without `--save-body`. 
Is this a file you can share with me?

> Of course the root of the problem is that the TNEF format is a 
> semi-secret abomination which isn't even reliably compatible between 
> all of the MS programs that write it, so breakage involving it is 
> never really a surprise...

I should make a top 10 of email related abominations, but I'm afraid I 
have material for a much longer list...

-- 
Benny