Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (Wikipedia)] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (Wikipedia)] | ||
* [http://www.fentun.com/ Fentun]: Freeware Windows program to decode this attachment | * [http://www.fentun.com/ Fentun]: Freeware Windows program to decode this attachment | ||
| − | * [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lookout/ Lookout | + | * [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lookout/ Lookout]: Thunderbird addon to read TNEF |
Revision as of 04:35, 30 November 2012
Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) is a proprietary format used by Microsoft mail software to encode attachments and rich text, instead of more standards-compliant methods such as MIME.
It is usually implemented as an attachment called winmail.dat or win.dat, which Microsoft programs know what to do with, but is a useless and confusing attachment to everybody else (unless they use one of several programs and plugins that have been devised to help non-MS-ers cope with it).
References
- Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (Wikipedia)
- Fentun: Freeware Windows program to decode this attachment
- Lookout: Thunderbird addon to read TNEF
