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diff --git a/_posts/2016-10-01-on-winmail-dat.md b/_posts/2016-10-01-on-winmail-dat.md deleted file mode 100644 index f8e99b1..0000000 --- a/_posts/2016-10-01-on-winmail-dat.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: post -date: 2016-10-01 10:20:27 +0200 -wip: true -authors: - - ["Patrick Spek", "http://tyil.work"] ---- - -This article is intended for sysadmins who run email systems and those who -maintain the Outlook instances for their workforce. If you do not belong into -either of these categories, the following article is probably not too useful. - -If you are one of the many people that suffers from a sysadmin who has yet to -fix the `winmail.dat` issues on his network, you can kindly redirect them here -and hope that they are kind enough to improve their services. If they do not, -you may want to look for a better sysadmin. - -## What is this `winmail.dat`? -A `winmail.dat` is a file that Outlook will attach if an Outlook user sends an -email containing actual attachments or any kind of markup unless Outlook has -been configured not to do so. It is a binary format that holds all the -information to the markup used in the email and the actual attachment that the -user was trying to send. As is typical with Microsoft, this is incompatible -with other Microsoft products. It will only "fix" itself if the receiver is -also using Outlook. - -## Why should I care? -This means that recipients of any mail sent using such a badly configured -Outlook instance cannot see any markup used by the sender, nor can the -recipient see any attachment. Most people can live without the markup, but not -being able to see the actual attachments is generally a pretty big issue. - -Now, there are shady tools available to try and decode these `winmail.dat` -files, but these will not work correctly in all circumstances. Furthermore, an -end-user should not be required to depend on a shady tool to fix the symptom of -a misconfigured email client from another party. - -## How can I fix this? - |