Forum mail list protocols (was Print issue)

[Bob Rasmussen]

Bruce,

I was working from a Windows machine, so YMMV. Like you, I first got it 
saved locally. But I misspoke earlier - it came across as 
'attachment.bin', which I could NOT find a way to deal with.

It was instead a later email, which Richard sent to me privately, that had 
a forwarded email that saved as winmail.dat, that contained the pdf file.

Sorry for adding confusion.

On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list wrote:

> Bob, how did you get the linked part into a winmail.dat form?   From a mac, I 
> can save the attachment listed at the bottom of the 'next part' section of 
> Richard's original post regarding 'Print issue', but it just saves as 
> 'attachment.bin'.   I do have a program for opening winmail.dat files 
> (TNEF).   --Bruce
>
> On 7/16/18 2:38 PM, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:
>> First, an aside on mail list protocols. Your original post attempted to 
>> forward or include a previous email from a client. The list server scrubbed 
>> that, but made it linkable as a file named "winmail.dat" as type 
>> "application/ms-tnef", which means, loosely, "attached email message".
>> 
>> I was able to download from the link, open it in a free utility named 
>> "Winmail opener" (https://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/), and 
>> see its multipart contents. One of the parts was a PDF file containing a 
>> scan, showing the original problem.
>> 
>> Takeaways for list users:
>> 
>> 1) Be aware when you're forwarding or attaching in posts to the filepro 
>> list;
>> 2) It is possible to download and open those scrubbed attachments, as 
>> above, depending on MIME type and file extension.
> [..]
>
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