Re: [exim] TNEF

On 10/7/2004 16:09, "Tim Jackson" <lists@???> wrote:

> Hi Michael, on Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:01:22 -0400 you wrote:
>
>> My employer often sends email to me. (Not surprising at all.) I work
>> as a contractor at a different location, so they end up sending email
>> to my home network's servers. Whenever anyone at the company sends me
>> anything, it all gets encapsulated in a TNEF file.
>
> This is going to be very tricky to handle at the MTA level. To be honest,
> I would either use ktnef or something at the client side, or just tell
> your employer to turn off "rich text sending" (the option is named
> something like that) in the piece-of-crap mail client that they are using.
> (Well, preferably stop using the piece of crap, but that's likely to be
> more of an uphill struggle). I've never had any complaints when asking
> people to do that. They usually understand when you explain that they are
> sending stuff in some weird nonstandard format. In fact, it can be quite a
> good opening example to use in explaining why the program they are using
> is so crap.
>
> I try to be co-operative in accepting all kinds of nonsense thrown my way
> but employer or not, I'd refuse point blank to go as far as messing around
> spending hours trying to install messy server-side decoding of proprietary
> junk when they are sending nonsense which is completely unnecessary and
> can be fixed by them in a matter of seconds.

And, further, if he attaches PDF files to Michael or other "outside" people
who don't use MS stuff, the PDF files are very likely to arrive corrupted.
When Lookout (2000 anyhow) is set to rich text (as opposed to HTML) for
styled text, it encodes .pdf in Quoted Printable...unfortunately not quite
according to the quoted printable standard. The result can be to blow away
Adobe Reader and other code that attempts to display PDF files, if the
receiving email program follows the quoted printable standard.

I would have spent more time than I did tracking that down for a customer
had Google not helped out.

--John