Subject: ms-tnef

From: Dorothy Tudor <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 07:18:05 -0500

If you could help me. I have received an e-mail with an
application/ms-tnef attached.
I do not know what to do with it. Please e-mail me at [email-masked]

Thanks
Dorothy Tudor

---

From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 07 Oct 1997 14:27:03 +0200

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

>> Regarding ms-tnef; Dorothy Tudor <[email-masked]> writes:

I suggest to add the following entry to the faq:

Q: What is an application/ms-tnef and what do I do with it?

A: It's a useless attachment created by pathetic Mail User Agents such 
   as Mickysoft Outlook Express. They can safely be ignored. With
   PC-Pine, you can modify your mailcap to lauch an appropriate
   program, such as fdisk or loadlin.

DT> If you could help me. I have received an e-mail with an
DT> application/ms-tnef attached.  I do not know what to do with
DT> it. Please e-mail me at [email-masked]

Hi, Dorothy, you're #28 to ask this question in just 2 months. Have
you ever heard of a thing called:
	<http://www.dejanews.com>? 

Have you ever consulted the pine help page:

	<http://www.washington.edu/pine/>

or my dvi, ps and html version of it:

	<http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/>

and if not, why not?

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable.
Then how come people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished?
(Hasse Skrifvars)

---

From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:12:53 -0700 (PDT)

The PINE Questions & Answers list contains "4.6 How can I control
association of MIME-attachments with applications and filenames?" at

	http://www.washington.edu/pine/QandA/custom.html

which gives a few examples ("application/ms-tnef" not among them ;-) of
configuring PINE to handle some MIME types.  Adding all kinds of types to
the examples would make it rather unwieldy, so the advice of others to
check Dejanews for discussion of attachments of dubious type is a good one
(with a search filter to target the newsgroup comp.mail.mime perhaps). 

The best advice I found there that's, IMHO, within the tolerance limits of
what an email recipient could be expected to do is to ask the sender to
resend the message turning off tnef-sending; perhaps with a note
explaining that this is likely to cause problems for other recipients of
the sender's messages as well. 

 ------------------------------------------------------------
  Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
  Computing & Communications        University of Washington    
 ------------------------------------------------------------

On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Jenny Tringale wrote:

& I'm not sure if I'm asking the right person, but I have a question.  I
& use netscape and I received a letter with some sort of attachment that
& said 2.1 and then "application/ms-tnef"  Do you have any idea what I  
& need to download to read the mail?

On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Dorothy Tudor wrote:

& If you could help me. I have received an e-mail with an
& application/ms-tnef attached.
& I do not know what to do with it. Please e-mail me at [email-masked]