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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:05:47
Message-Id: 358eca8f0606040455n308b09daj70ae580ec8139fc2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion by Mick
1 On 03/06/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 03/06/06, JimD <jimdageek@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 > > I am running courier-imap. I guess I can use outlook under VMware to
5 > > transfer the emails to my IMAP server. I was hoping to be able to do it
6 > > off-line, but oh well.
7 >
8 > Oh no! Not winmail.dat ! ! !
9 >
10 > Ha, ha! Another wonderful M$Windoze formating wrapper, only created
11 > and read by their M$Outlook client. The winmail.dat file is in a
12 > M$Windoze format called "Transport-Neutral Encapsulation Format", or
13 > "MS-TNEF", some details on this format can be found at
14 > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mapi/html/ca148ec3-8586-4c74-8ff8-cd542256e385.asp
15 >
16 > On the other hand, there's a couple of converters out there for
17 > different platforms (there's even one for Psion Epoc!), but the one
18 > you could try in Linux is:
19 >
20 > http://www.fentun.com/linux.html
21
22 I also found this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/
23
24 HTH
25 --
26 Regards,
27 Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion JimD <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org>