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Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format or TNEF is a proprietary e-mail attachment format used by Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server. An attached file with TNEF encoding is most usually called winmail.dat or win.dat and has a MIME type of Application/MS-TNEF. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
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Overview
Some TNEF files only contain information used by Outlook to generate a richly formatted view of the message, embedded (OLE) documents or Outlook-specific features such as forms, voting buttons, and meeting requests. Other TNEF files may contain files which have been attached to an e-mail message. Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is a distributed object system and protocol developed by Microsoft. ...
Within the Outlook email client TNEF encoding cannot be explicitly enabled or disabled. Selecting RTF as the format for sending an e-mail implicitly enables TNEF encoding, using it in preference to the more common and widely compatible MIME standard. When sending plain-text or HTML format messages, Outlook uses MIME. An email client (or mail user agent [MUA]) is a computer program that is used to read and send e-mail. ...
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TNEF attachments can contain security sensitive information such as user login name and file paths[1], from which access controls could possibly be inferred. Sensitive information is knowledge that might give someone an advantage if revealed to persons not entitled to know it. ...
Decoding Programs to decode and extract files from TNEF-encoded attachments are available on many platforms:
Posix - yTNEF GPL TNEF extractor from the POSIX command-line, designed specifically for reading winmail.dat.
- TNEF GPL TNEF extractor from the POSIX command-line.
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MS Windows - Winmail.dat Reader Freeware easy-to-use decoder.
- Winmail Opener Freeware decoder.
- abcwinmail Freeware decoder.
- fentun Freeware decoder.
Online - tud.at service Web service and GPL licensed PHP script for reading attachments in winmail.dat files.
- 62ndsOnline winmail.dat attachment extractor.
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Others - JTNEF GPL Java TNEF package.
- pytnef library - TNEF access library written in Python, licensed under LGPL.
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References - ^ How e-mail message formats affect Internet e-mails in Outlook. Microsoft (2005-03-30). Retrieved on 2006-10-13.
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