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Several Microsoft Windows email applications support the Transport Neutral
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Encapsulation Format (TNEF). This is a method for MAPI compliant mail programs
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to transfer data to each other across gateways. Generally, a mail agent will
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create a MIME multipart message containing the text body of the mail message,
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and a single attachment of type application/ms-tnef. This attachment at least
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follows the format of MIME messages, if not the intent. Usually, this bitstream
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contains no more information than is already contained in the headers and body
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of the message, but instead of attaching attachments to the email message as
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separate MIME attachments, they are included in the TNEF attachment. To handle
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this, I wrote a program tnef2txt which will dump the information in the TNEF
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bitstream, and also dump files to disk which are contained in the bitstream.
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Just run the program without arguments for usage information. You can call this
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program from a mailcap file with the following line:
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application/ms-tnef; tnef2txt %s; copiousoutput
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or, if you wish to save attachments to disk which are in the bitstream:
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application/ms-tnef; tnef2txt -s %s; copiousoutput
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