2013-12-02T19:30:20Z Photos, electronics, cnc, and more Jeff Eplerjepler@unpythonic.net 2013-12-02T19:30:20Z 2013-12-02T19:30:20Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01386012620 My e-mail full text search software <a href="https://gamma.unpythonic.net/software/mailpie">mailpie</a> is now hosted at github: <a href="https://github.com/jepler/mailpie">https://github.com/jepler/mailpie</a> <p> 2011-09-20T18:49:42Z 2011-09-20T18:49:42Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01316544582 In her professional life, my fiancée routinely gets emails with attachments in the 'winmail.dat' aka application/ms-tnef format. It does her no good to berate these prisoners of proprietary software, so I set out to provide her with an easy-to-use solution that would work on her end. Now, prompted by <a href="http://www.carbon-project.org/TNEF_or_how_to_lock_up_your_e_mails.html">this blog entry</a> I am posting it for others to use. <p>There are a number of programs that can rescue data from this proprietary attachment format, but I was not aware of a program that would automatically convert the winmail.dat attachment to (a series of) regular mime attachments. (it appears that <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/ytnef_smtpd_py">ytnef_smtpd</a> may be such a program) <p>So I wrote one, <a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01316544582/tnef2mime.py">tnef2mime.py</a>. tnef2mime reads a message on standard input, combs it for ms-tnef attachments, and uses the tnef(1) program to extract their contents. Then it takes the extracted files, adds them as new MIME parts, and prints the whole resulting message. <p>This is suitable for use in e.g. procmail: <blockquote><pre> :0fw | tnef2mime </pre></blockquote> <p>Several steps are taken in order to minimize the chances for data loss: Just in case it did an imperfect job, it leaves the existing ms-tnef attachment intact. If any problem is encountered, the unmodified message is written. <p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. <p><p><b>Files currently attached to this page:</b> <table cellpadding=5 style="width:auto!important; clear:none!important"><col><col style="text-align: right"><tr bgcolor=#eeeeee><td><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01316544582/tnef2mime.py">tnef2mime.py</a></td><td>3.1kB</td></tr></table><p> 2008-05-01T21:33:23Z 2008-05-01T21:33:23Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01209677603 I love <a href="https://gamma.unpythonic.net/software/mailpie">this little program</a> and now I don't know how I lived without it. <p>Aside from bugs fixed, the main improvement is a double-level indexing scheme that makes it fast to add messages just one or a few at a time. 2008-04-26T17:03:57Z 2008-04-26T17:03:57Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/software/01209229437 <a href="https://gamma.unpythonic.net/software/mailpie">mailpie is a suite of programs for commandline full-text search of large e-mail archives</a>.