MacOS X

winmail.dat (TNEF) attachments and non-Windows operating systems

My sister has sent me again an attachment which was encoded in the winmail.dat attachment. Sucks big time. Not only Linux users get pissed but also Macintosh users. Of course you can open it as long as you know how. On Mac OS X you need TNEF's Enough and on Linux you need tnef. Suse Linux 9.2 has an rpm that works well with KMail. Just click the winmail.dat and select "Open with tnef".

Importing email from Kontact to Apple's Mail App

1. If you store your email in Kontact as mbox files just straightforwardly import them into Apple's Mail application.

2. If you store your email as mailbox folders, the procedure is a bit more complicated. - in each mail folder to be imported run the script converting mailbox into mbox (the script doesn't support nested folders so one has to run it for each folder separately, spaces are not allowed for the script to work) - import mbox into Mail TBC...

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