Hi Tim,
We would have noticed it before. Some recipients of the e-mail are in our
Brisbane office running GroupWise and haven't changed anything. They would
normally get around 10-20 emails a day (with attachments) from at least 8
users on site. I know at least one of the users changed their e-mail
settings but the others (until now) hadn't.
Overall it isn't a problem. I was just surprised that when we changed the
operating system the MTA appeared to operate differently.
Do a Google search and you will find a lot of other's that agree on your
last comment! From what I have been told, MS are changing the MS-TNEF
again!
Regards,
Dougal McWhinney
IT/Control Systems Supervisor.
Queensland Magnesia Pty Ltd
Mail : PO Box 5798, Central Queensland Mail Centre. QLD 4702
e-mail: dmcwhinney@???
Phone : +61 7 4920 0236
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Fax : +61 7 4936 1380
"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you
with experience."
-----Original Message-----
From: exim-users-admin@??? [
mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org] On Behalf
Of Tim Jackson
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 6:59 PM
To: Exim Users List
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim 4.20 + Outlook + Attachments
Hi Dougal, on Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:58:36 +1000 you wrote:
> I have done some Googling and discovered that MS-Outlook adds formatting
> commands to the e-mail as it leaves and if received by a non-Outlook
> client all attachments will show as "Winmail.dat"
> The question I have is what changed between RH 7.1 and RH 8.0 as this
> was working before???
First: It's normal (sigh) for Outlook to send those stupid winmail.dat
(TNEF) attachments when set to send rich text mails.
Since we're talking about upgrading an OS version of the server running
your MTA, which has nothing to do with attachment types etc., I don't see
how upgrading your server would have made any difference to this, unless
you had some very unusual software which converted stupid TNEF format
attachments to proper MIME on-the-fly, but I don't even know if such a
thing exists; it would be a non-trivial process.
Therefore, I think that one of the following has happened:
a) you never noticed before
b) one or more of your Outlook users changed their settings
Why MIME was not good enough for the morons at Microsoft and they instead
decided that they had to pollute the world with yet another pointless
non-standard format, who knows.
Tim
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