TNEF message

[Andrew Farris]

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 14:58 +0800, HermanAA wrote:
> I use Ubuntu 8.10, default setup.
> 
> I received a message with :
> TNEF message attachment (winmail.dat)
[snip]
> Question 1: Can I open the file somehow? (in Ubuntu)

Other's have provided good answers to this

> Question 2: Is there a polite message? Saying:
> I use Linux. I cannot read the file. Please use a publicly-known format.
>  (or something like that)
>  (I lack the knowledge to make a factual-correct answer.)

Check this out: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
It's geared specifically toward word docs, but it could easily be
modified to apply to the winmail.dat crap.

-- 
Andrew
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