Winmail.da

[Vern H. Gill]

It has nothing to do with POSIX compliance, or SMTP compliance... It also
has nothing to do with SMS. It, has nothing to do wither with base64. It has
to do with another software company, just like many Linux distro vendors,
trying to extend the functionality of their software. From the MS
Knowledgebase;

When an end user sends mail to the Internet from an Exchange Windows or
Outlook client, a file attachment called Winmail.dat may be automatically
added to the end of the message if the recipient's client cannot receive
messages in Rich Text Format (RTF). The Winmail.dat file contains Exchange
Server RTF information for the message, and may appear to the recipient as a
binary file. It is not useful to non-Exchange Server recipients.

More so than anything MS has done, it is users failing to understand the
software they are using. The "broken" software can be "fixed" to not send
this attachment, but it requires a little work fromt he user. And believe
me, it isn't only MS software users that suffer this problem either. In the
future, instead of being a "dumb little MS basher", or a "cooler because I
use linux" idiot, do your research and find out what is REALLY going on...
Oh, and if you want to try and flame me because I am a "Microsoft Whore" or
whatever, don't bother. I have probably been in the xNix world longer than
you have thought about being in it.. I just happen to appreciate some of the
MS software, just as I appreciate some of the xNix software. One cannot do
EVERYTHING the other can better...

Enjoy...

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom-admin at us5.samba.org
[mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at us5.samba.org]On Behalf Of Hazen
Valliant-Saunders
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 6:26 AM
To: Steeve
Cc: samba-ntdom at samba.org
Subject: Winmail.da


Hey Steve:
	Didn't ya know, SMS (Small Management Server or SBS) is broken tends not to
properley encode informaiton in mail messages, M$ figures if your stupid
enough to buy thier crappy business server then you will also be dumb
enought not to read any RFC's on SMTP or POP mail acess (1273 i think) You
see the encodeing of Base64 messages has a particular format but M$ figured
they would change that and that is why when you use your Mozillia based
browser for mail or any other mail browser (Especially those that aren't
busted, and adhere to RFC and POSIX spec.) you get lovely little unreadable
winmail.dat files.  (Vi should do the trick)
-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom-admin at us5.samba.org
[mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at us5.samba.org]On Behalf Of Steeve
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 1:51 PM
To: t.nijenbrink at e-presence.nl
Cc: samba-ntdom at us4.samba.org
Subject: Re: (no subject)



t.nijenbrink at e-presence.nl wrote:
>
>                   Name: WINMAIL.DAT
>    WINMAIL.DAT    Type: data file
(application/x-unknown-content-type-TextPad.dat)
>               Encoding: base64

I don't know what the fsck this is, but it's unreadable
for me.

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