On Oct 7, 2004, at 9:33 PM, Edgar Lovecraft wrote:
> Tim Jackson 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
>
> I agree, just tell them that Outlook 'Rich Text' is an
> Outlook-to-Outlook
> mail format, and that no other mail client (that I know of) can
> natively
> handle this message format, including Outlook Express, and just to add
> to
> things, not even Exchange can understand the Outlook 'Rich Text'
> format,
> so it does not matter whether the message passes through one, two,
> three,
> or no Exchange servers, it is all in how he has his client configured.
When I pull the same message off the Exchange server using Thunderbird
via IMAP, it works fine. I'm just not incredibly fond of Thunderbird
and use it only for my Exchange account where I get only very annoying
email for the Windows administrators since I'm on the same mailing
list.
Nevertheless, it works from the Exchange server, but not from my
Exim/Courier setup on my home network, regardless of the client I use.
-Michael
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