IMAP, winmail.dat and html formatted mails

[olipage]

Hey guys,

i know there is an open bug concerning using attachment extraction on richtext mails. but i have this behaviour on html mails as well? when dragging mails within outlook 2010 to my alfresco imap box my mails get extracted to winmail.dat files, if they are text/html. plaintext mails work fine. i am not sure, but i believe this ought to work already, and i have somehow deconfigured this while trying to cope with the german special umlaute?

though richtext mails do NOT work, html and plaintext should, shouldn't they?

kind regards,

Oliver Zieger

[mrogers]

What exactly do you mean by "not working"?

[olipage]

hi,

sorry, this was not a precise info

by not working i meant, that attchment extraction of richtext/html mails does create a directory, but does not extract the document but rather a winmail.dat file. independent of what attachment i have. i tried pdfs, and worddocs.

kind regards,

Oliver

[mrogers]

Thanks for the clarification. 

Unfortunately if you are using Outlook's proprietary mail format then Alfresco does not yet have the code to unwrap it.   As you have seen it is a known issue that is being worked on. 

There is an option in Outlook to send "standard" rfc822 email messages which may help.

[olipage]

hey guys,

again, after upgrading to 3.4c this seems to work for me. i love it…

Oliver

[mrogers]

Well we havn't yet implemented handling for MS TNEF :?

[olipage]

hey guys,

i am pretty sure, that this works, because i could change exchange server settings concerning winmail.dat, and html mails. i'll keep you up2date. for my first tests it looks promising, that using those outlook/exchange setting you can cover this issue, on my setup. exchange 2003/outlook2010

cheers, Oliver