Reading messages with Content-Type: "application/ms-tnef"

George Cordahi (cordahi@io.org)
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:49:34 -0500

I recently received a message written and sent using Microsoft Exchange.
The message arrived in two parts: The first was readable, the second was
encoded. I had received similar messages in the past, and ingnored the
encoded part because it was merely a repetion of the clear part in
Exchange's enhanced ( !!) format. This time I know the second part
included certain attachments. But I don't know how to extract them. Any
ideas ?

Here is what the message looks like.

The Header included:
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BBD7DD.EEF812C0"

The Message Body included:

------ =_NextPart_000_01BBD7DD.EEF812C0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

..... readable stuff ....

------ =_NextPart_000_01BBD7DD.EEF812C0
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

eJ8+IggXAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy
b3NvZnQgTWFpbC5Ob3RlADEIAQ2ABAACAAAAAgACAAEEkAYALAEAAAEAAAAMAAAAAwAAMAIAAAAL
AA8OAAAAAAIB/w8BAAAAZwAAAAAAAAC1O8LALHcQGqG8CAArKlbCFQAAAJNnATPcfLsRqlYCuXde
UBFEgAAAAAAAAIErH6S+oxAZnW4A3QEPVAIAAAAAR2VvcmdlIENvcmRhaGkAU01UUABjb3JkYWhp
......
and after another 4000 lines of that
------ =_NextPart_000_01BBD7DD.EEF812C0--

-- 
 George Cordahi          cordahi@io.org    OR    cordahg2@epo.gov.on.ca
 Mississauga, Ontario
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