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WinmailExtractor

Version:

Winmail Extractor, ver 1.1a

Release date:

06/30/2006 12:00:00 AM

Author:

Julian Robichaux

Category:

Messaging

Type:

Open Source (see project for licensing information)

Supported Notes Version:

R 6.5.x, R 7.0.x

Document Release:

06/16/2006 01:00:13 AM

Contributor:

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Last Modified:

09 Feb 2012

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Description

Release 1.1a

This is identical to the 1.1 release, with the following minor changes:

* Changed the Default user in the ACL to be "Manager" instead of "Depositor" so
you can set everything up properly (after you make yourself Manager, you should
change the Default back to Depositor, though -- as per the instructions)

* Clarfied the instructions for how to sign the database in the "Using This
Database" doc

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1
* Modified the default Strings in the SettingsDoc class to check for
user-defined values in the DatabaseSettings doc, to make it easier to localize
the messages in this database for non-English languages. In other words, you
can now customize all of the strings from the profile doc instead of having to
make updates directly to the SettingsDoc class.

* As a result of making the default SettingsDoc Strings modifiable in the
profile doc, it made sense to no longer make the Strings "static final", to
avoid any weirdness with caching of static values in Domino.
Renamed the new mail agent from "Process Mail Incoming Mail" to "Process
Incoming Mail".

* Added the "ReProcess Selected Docs" agent, to allow you to manually run the
mail processing code against selected docs in a view, even if they've already
been processed.

DESCRIPTION
At times, e-mails you receive from users of Outlook/Exchange will be plain-text
messages with a large attachment at the end called either "Winmail.dat" or
"ATT0001.dat". The reason why this happens is described fairly well in
Microsoft Technote 241538:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q241538

However, you as a Lotus Notes user must now do something with that .dat file,
especially if there are file attachments trapped inside. While there are
stand-alone freeware and shareware applications that will read those files for
you (as long as you save the file to your hard drive and perform some manual
steps), this database is meant to be a Domino mail-in database where users can
simply forward their messages here and it will extract the files and send them
back to the user. All you have to do is:

* Set this database up as a mail-in database
* Tell users to forward their Winmail.dat e-mails to this database
* The database will extract the files from Winmail.dat and send them back to
the user

Please see the "Using This Database" document for information on how to set
this database up properly.

The Winmail.dat/TNEF file extraction makes use of a wonderful open source and
GPLed JTNEF library by Amichai Rothman. Please visit his site (
http://www.freeutils.net ) if you have any questions about the underlying TNEF
conversion code, or the licensing of his library.

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