my 2 cents

We all know these ugly mails in our mailboxes with an attachement called winmail.dat.

While we all are quite serious that people using a software constellation which produces this kind of attachements should be arrested, (Where is Mr. Scheuble when we really need him?) this attitude doesn’t help our users who just want to read their fu*ing emails.

A while ago I developed an enhancement for felamimail which decodes winmail.dat archives on the fly and just displayes the embedded files to the user. It’s based on the ytnef library which on debian system could easily be installed by a simple apt-get install ytnef.

As I can’t estimate the security related isues of this extension yet, I don’t dare to commit this into trunk. If you are a security guru, please comment the code!