Re: Email attachment.dat

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Simon Slater wrote:
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 10:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Simon Slater wrote:
	G'day again
		This may be a ver basic or even stupid question, but I'll ask anyway
(if I show my ignorance, hopefully I can increase in knowledge).  Some
emails received have an attachment called attachment.dat.  What is this
for and what is in it?  I do not open attachments unless I know who they
are from & what they are for.
Strangely enough this was just discussed on the RHELv5 list....

Go here:

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list

and check out the archives with the subject "[rhelv5-list] winmail.dat"

Thanks Ed

i'm the one who proposed the original question (and I'm very happy with the answer, especially as there's a debianesque box here where an apt-get install tnef got the requisite software.

However, I'm not sure that "attachment,dat" is the same thing, tho it won't hurt to fine out.

Most important is the source of the email; if its' from someone you don't know claiming to be in hospital nearing death and with the small some of $US10,000,000 or so looking for a good home, well I've had two of those today. OTOH they didn't have attachment.dat on them either, that I noticed.



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