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Bug 252961 - Explain "Winmail.DAT" and TNEF
Explain "Winmail.DAT" and TNEF
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: User Documentation
2.6.x
Other All
: Normal minor
: Future
Assigned To: Mark Moulder
Evolution QA team
evolution[interop]
Depends on:
Blocks: 216290 327508 327510
 
 
Reported: 2004-01-16 22:57 UTC by aaron
Modified: 2013-09-13 00:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description aaron 2004-01-16 22:57:00 UTC 
Add a note about the winmail.dat attachments people get, and explain 
a) How to read them
b) How to make Outlook not send them
c) Why Outlook users should care
Comment 1 André Klapper 2004-09-03 19:46:14 UTC 
this bug refers also to the closed bug 200232.
setting milestone to 2.0.0 as discussed on irc with gerardo.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-03-31 18:21:16 UTC 
also see bug 271398
Comment 3 André Klapper 2005-03-31 18:22:03 UTC 
adding interop keyword
Comment 4 André Klapper 2005-06-05 14:09:26 UTC 
sigh... retargetting from 2.1 to 2.3 to get rid of all that recent milestones...
Comment 5 Mark Moulder 2005-08-29 15:50:40 UTC 
Not enough time to add this to the 2.3 doc. Reassigning to 2.5.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2005-12-06 23:56:42 UTC 
updating version number
Comment 7 André Klapper 2006-03-05 01:22:07 UTC 
changing target milestone from 2.5 to future. sorry, too many bugs, too less time.
Comment 8 Lucky Wankhede 2007-08-21 14:55:24 UTC 
Hey people we already have a "TNEF Attachment decoder" for decoding winmail.dat files is available.
Will be part of evolution 2.12 release.
Comment 9 Lucky Wankhede 2007-08-21 15:04:39 UTC 
Hey andre can we just close this bug the bugs related to it.
As we already have "TNEF Attachment decoder" plugin in head.
Comment 10 André Klapper 2007-08-21 15:14:21 UTC 
go ahead
Comment 11 Lucky Wankhede 2007-08-22 05:19:19 UTC 
Closing this bugs as fixed.
First close on my side for my own developed plugin.
;)