winmail.dat

[Brenda O'Hagan]

i understood this was officially a "bug" in outlook, rather than a decision.
all be it a bug that they decided not to ever fix

documented here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278061


On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:49, David Relson wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:42:51 -0700
>
> Chris Fortune wrote:
> > A certain Emperialistic software vendor from Redmond has unilaterally
> > decided that outgoing email from Outlook 10 should be encrypted in
> > TNEF format, as winmail.dat .  I know that bogofilter does not convert
> > attachments as a matter of principle, but since this is such a popular
> > format, and there is no plain/text section in these emails, and
> > because these mails are hammy, maybe there should be an exception in
> > this case?
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> You gotta be kidding!
>
> Cutting all their devoted users off from the rest of the email world ???
>
> When/where was this decreed?
>
> David
>
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