[Dovecot] dovecot support ms-tnef mail parser?

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Mon Jun 25 11:45:15 EEST 2012


On 2012-06-25 2:15 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott <ott at mirix.org> wrote:
> On 2012-06-25 04:52, DongYu.Zhen wrote:
>> How to parse ms-tnef mail by dovecot?
>
> You can't do that directly in Dovecot. What you can do is to use a
> utility called tnef [1] (available in major GNU/Linux distributions) on
> the client to extract the data on the client. Otherwise you could use
> ytnef [2] with procmail or Dovecot sieve_pipe [3] on the server (see [4]).
>
> I tried tnef on rare occasions and it worked.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias-Christian
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/
> [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ytnef/
> [3] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Plugins/Pipe
> [4] http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/Automatic_winmail.dat_decoding

Sounds like a good candidate for a plug-in.

Currently I use the Lookout extension in Thunderbird to do this, but it 
isn't perfect...

-- 

Best regards,

Charles



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