Re: MailBox: handling MS-TNEF attachments

Hi Koen,

I missed your question because of a spam overload.  Please put 'MailBox'
in the subject the next time (it will help me)

> Some automated scripts written in VBScript send out mails with attachments
> using Microsoft's CDO. These attachments do not appear as regular
> "Application/OCTET-STREAM" but as " Application/MS-TNEF". I am using the
> standard $obj->decoded( OPTIONS ) methode to decode this message.
> Unfortunately it doesn't decode the message properly. Does anyone of you has
> experienced the same?

The 'decoded()' method is removing the transfer-encoding.  What you
need is a descrambling of the body.  The best place to do that is
probably as rule in Mail::Message->rebuild()....

> Does the mailbox perl module know how to handle these types of
> attachments at all?

I have encounted the attachement format before, but was not able
to figure-out how it works.  Now I see that there is a Convert::TNEF
module.  Some challenged?  Shouldn't be too hard, probably some
subroutine in Mail::Message::Construct::Rebuild.
-- 
               MarkOv

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