Autor: W B Hacker Data: A: exim users Assumpte: Re: [exim] TNEF
The Doctor wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 05:17:04PM +0000, Always Learning wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 09:18 -0700, The Doctor wrote:
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>>> You can use tnef to extract winmail.dat and then replace the contents accordingly.
>>
>> Why would any person using open-source and free Exim want to start
>> playing about with expensive and propriety Microsoft-Only file formats ?
>>
>> Exim's task is to receive and send emails. It does this excellently.
>
> Problem is that o nthe other side
> a client has to perform gymnastics so that they can read to
> proprietary sent e-mail.
>
Maybe. But WinPoo is so 'biquitous that most MUA have long-since been
equipped to deal with all that automagically and the Luser is not even
aware it has happened.
So long as Exim mungeth nada and transfers transparently, it is being
'righteous'.
Doing otherwise looks to make a problem where there is none.
