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

James Huang (james@sn.no)
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 20:29:28 +0100

In mail.yarn, article <VMylykW2vDnH092yn@daina.bga.com>, mikus@bga.com
(Mikus Grinbergs) wrote:

> In article <+7wlyclh5jHK092yn@io.org>, cordahi@io.org (George Cordahi)
> wrote:
> >
> > 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 ?
>
> From what I remember of discussions a while ago on mail-related
> newsgroups, Microsoft had _NOT_ published the specifications for
> "ms-tnef" (in other words, it was a proprietary format).
>
> At that time, therefore, the ONLY way to extract "ms-tnef" content was
> to use Microsoft software. I don't know if the situation has changed
> since then.

What if the receipient decodes the B64 part and runs it through MS Word?

Just a long shot.

James