winmail.dat attachments

[Doug Rorem]

>>
>>>> Can someone guide me to descramble this?
>>
>>>i tried xferpro,(a mail-format de-scrambler, a must when transferring 
>>>thru some services) all formats with no luck. sorry.
>>
>>I've resent the message you're trying to unscramble.
>>
>>It looked to me like the scrambled version was uuencoded.
>>(If you're on a Unix machine, check the man pages for
>>uuencode and uudecode.)  That format was entirely 
>>unintentional on my part.  I'm trying for straight ASCII.
>>
>>Anthony Tsakiris
>>
>>begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT
>>M>)\^(C,-`0:0" `$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y 0```````#H``$(@ <`
>>
23-nov-96

Anthony,

Microsoft Exchange appends this stuff apparently by
default (you have to explicitly shut it off for each email
address you send to).... It apparently is a duplicate of the
clear text (ASCII) email, except in uuencoded Microsoft RTF [Rich
Text Format] which is unusable to people not using Microsoft mailers.
Microsoft has a page that deals with this specific problem
"XFOR: Preventing WINMAIL.DAT Sent to Internet Users"

http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q138/0/53.htm

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