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Bug 607107 - All email sent through Exchange has an unwanted TNEF attachment
All email sent through Exchange has an unwanted TNEF attachment
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 593176
Product: evolution-mapi
Classification: Applications
Component: Mail
0.29.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: evolution-mapi-maint
evolution-mapi-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-15 22:21 UTC by Paul Smith
Modified: 2010-02-01 19:17 UTC
See Also:
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Description Paul Smith 2010-01-15 22:21:55 UTC 
I've tried this with both Evolution 2.28.2 as well as the latest git code built yesterday.  I'm on an Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 system, connecting to both IMAP (Dovecot) and MAPI (Exchange 2007).  All my IMAP operations work fine: email sent to my Exchange account and to external accounts looks fine.  Also I can connect to my Exchange server via IMAP (they have enabled this) and email I send both to other Exchange users and to remote accounts looks fine (this is sending via SMTP to the Exchange server's SMTP port).

If I send mail from my MAPI account to other users on my Exchange server, that mail also looks fine.

If I send mail from my MAPI account to users REMOTE to my Exchange server (for example, if I send mail to my personal IMAP account), every message has a format of the normal message, PLUS a TNEF attachment named "winmail.dat".  This is true regardless of whether the mail I sent originally was in text mode or html mode.

I can't really use Evo MAPI for sending mail if all my mail to remote addresses is going to have this attachment added.
Comment 1 Paul Smith 2010-01-15 22:36:12 UTC 
I should mention that I can send email to remote accounts from Outlook (running on my Linux system using Crossover [wine]) and through the Exchange 2007 web interface, and these messages do not have this TNEF attachment.  It seems only the messages sent through the Evolution MAPI backend get this "special treatment".
Comment 2 Akhil Laddha 2010-01-18 07:08:18 UTC 
bug 593176 looks related
Comment 3 Paul Smith 2010-01-18 14:58:30 UTC 
It may be, but if so the patch Johnny provided wasn't enough to fix the problem.
Comment 4 Milan Crha 2010-02-01 19:17:24 UTC 
Correct. Let's move to the older bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 593176 ***