Winmail.dat (TNEF encoding)

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Hi, i am attempting to automate functions on all attachments received by a mailbox and sorted into a specific label. I am able to iterate through the emails and each attachment, but i occasionally encounter an attachment called “winmail.dat”. I understand this is due to the email sender using Outlook/Exchange.

Is there any functionality or an activity/library i can use to handle these scenarios?

Thanks
Chris

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Hi @cconnors

Winmail.dat is actually an Outlook feature that preserves the formatting of the mail body(esp RTF) and as you rightly mentioned that this is from the senders end, hence unfortunately we cannot do much from our end.

Though as a workaround if you can’t ask the senders to send the mails in proper format, you can make your Outlook receive all mails in Plain Text format by following the below mentioned steps:

  • Start Outlook.
  • Click the File tab in the Ribbon, and then click Options on the menu.
  • Click Trust Center on the Options menu.
  • Click the Trust Center Settings tab.
  • Click E-mail Security.
  • Under Read as Plain Text, click to select the Read all standard mail in plain text check box.
  • To include messages that are signed with a digital signature, click to select the Read all digitally signed mail in plain text check box.

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Please revert if any clarifications required.

Regards

Rajat