Re: How to deal with winmail.dat in Gnus

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Wednesday,  1 Apr 2020 at 09:48, H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
>> Today I sent to myself an email from Outlook with a PDF attachment and I
>> received an email with a winmail.dat attachement!  Never seen such a
>> thing in my live.
>
> You need to tell Outlook to send using MIME, not it's own
> "standard".  When our organization moved fully to Outlook, I spent the
> first few months pointing this out to people.  Eventually, in our place,
> the default was changed somehow.
>
> On Linux, there's a tool called "tnef" which will decode these
> files.  Not sure how to get gnus to apply that, however.

You can pipe a part through an external program using "K |". I don't
know if it's possible to install an automatic filter when saving the
attachments with "X m". MIME terrifies me and I try to minimize my
interaction with it.