evolution not recognise winmail.dat

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Do you have the 'tnef-attachment' plugin enabled (Edit/Plugins)?

If you do not see it, then you need to install the evolution-plugins-experimental' package. You can do it, for example, by opening a terminal and:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install evolution-plugins-experimental

After installing the package, close & restart Evolution, then go back into Edit/Plugins, and make sure tnef-attachment is enabled. You then should be able to decipher the infamous winmail.dat.

Thanks.
I have installed experimental plugins but unfortunately evolution STILL does not recognises winmail.dat as something else.
Though, I see along plugins TNEF reader.

Any ideas what is next?
Regards!

You *did* enable the tnef-attachment extension, right?

Another thing might be going on: check if you have libytnef0 installed. For example, on a terminal, type 'dpkg -l libytnef\*'. You should see something like:

hggdh@xango2:~/.evolution $ dpkg -l libytnef\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
un libytnef-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libytnef0 1.5-1 improved decoder for application/ms-tnef attachments
ii libytnef0-dev 1.5-1 improved decoder for application/ms-tnef attachments
hggdh@xango2:~/.evolution $

libytnef0 has status 'ii', this is good. If you see it with *any* other status, then, from the terminal, issue:

sudo apt-get install libytnef0

then bounce Evolution again. You should now be all set.

libytnef0 was installed with ytnef the same time by Synaptic, I just checked all that stuff in one time.
So when I written all that stuff was installed and Evolution did nothing about winmail.dat.

Any other ideas?

John, what is your version of evolution? Please use, on a terminal, "dpkg -l evolution\*", and paste the output here.

ii evolution 2.22.1-0ubuntu groupware suite with mail client and organiz

can you send me one such winmail.dat file? send it to hggdh2 at gmail dot com.

John, please also repeat the dpkg command I gave previously. Notice that the command ends with a backslash-asterisk:

dpkg -l evolution\*

and please paste *all* output here.

dpkg -l evolution\*

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii evolution 2.22.3.1-0ubun groupware suite with mail client and organiz
ii evolution-comm 2.22.3.1-0ubun architecture independent files for Evolution
ii evolution-data 2.22.1-0ubuntu evolution database backend server
ii evolution-data 2.22.1-0ubuntu architecture independent files for Evolution
un evolution-data <none> (no description available)
un evolution-data <none> (no description available)
un evolution-dbg <none> (no description available)
ii evolution-exch 2.22.1-0ubuntu Exchange plugin for the Evolution groupware
un evolution-jesc <none> (no description available)
ii evolution-plug 2.22.1-0ubuntu standard plugins for Evolution
ii evolution-plug 2.22.3.1-0ubun experimental plugins for Evolution
un evolution-scal <none> (no description available)
ii evolution-webc 2.21.92-0ubunt webcal: URL handler for GNOME and Evolution

John, you are showing a mix of Evo package levels: Evolution and evolution-plugin-experimental are at 2.22.3.1, Evolution-data-server, Evolutin-exchange, and evolution-plugin are at 2.22.1, and evolution-webcal is at 2.21.92...

Your problems are probably because of that mix. I frankly have no idea how this could happen, so I will not waste time trying to explain it.

Please:
1. upgrade *ALL* evolution packages to the current level
2. then quit Evolution;
3. on a console, issue 'evolution --force-shutdown'
4. restart Evolution;
5. make sure the TNEF attachments plugin is enable; if it is not, enable it & restart Evolution;
6. try again.

Sorry for the delay.

I can not do it because I checked :
evolution-webcal is 2.21.92-0ubuntu1 only.

evolution and
evolution-data-server are 2.22.1-0ubuntu3.

evolution-data-server and
evolution-data-server-common are 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 only.

evolution-exchange 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
evolution-plugins 2.22.1-0ubuntu3
evolution-plugins-experimental 2.22.1-0ubuntu3

If I do upgrade - again - I get not the same version :
version 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
evolution
evolution-common
evolution-data-server
evolution-data-server-common
evolution-plugins
evolution-plugins-experimental

version 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu2
evolution-exchange

evolution-webcal only older version is available

So it's impossible to get the same level for all evolution packages or I can to install to default version?

> If I do upgrade - again - I get not the same version :
> version 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
> evolution
> evolution-common
> evolution-data-server
> evolution-data-server-common
> evolution-plugins
> evolution-plugins-experimental

Does this mean you were able to upgrade all (except for evolution-webcal) to 2.232.3*? If so, this should do the trick.

any news on this?

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

I'm seeing information on this problem relating to use of gmail and IMAP. Is this the case for anyone involved?

If so, see here....
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517440

I have the same problem.

After installing 'evolution-plugins-experimental', ensuring 'tnef-attachment' is enabled, and restarting machine, "winmail.dat" attachments are not recognised.

I have updated all packages via 'apt-get upgrade'. dpkg -l evolution\* yields:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii evolution 2.28.1-0ubuntu groupware suite with mail client and organiz
ii evolution-comm 2.28.1-0ubuntu architecture independent files for Evolution
ii evolution-couc 0.3.2-0ubuntu2 Evolution support for CouchDB databases
ii evolution-data 2.28.1-0ubuntu evolution database backend server
ii evolution-data 2.28.1-0ubuntu architecture independent files for Evolution
un evolution-data <none> (no description available)
un evolution-data <none> (no description available)
un evolution-dbg <none> (no description available)
un evolution-docu <none> (no description available)
ii evolution-docu 2.28.1-0ubuntu documentation for Evolution
ii evolution-exch 2.28.1-0ubuntu Exchange plugin for the Evolution groupware
un evolution-exch <none> (no description available)
ii evolution-indi 0.2.4-0ubuntu3 GNOME panel indicator applet for Evolution
ii evolution-plug 2.28.1-0ubuntu standard plugins for Evolution
ii evolution-plug 2.28.1-0ubuntu experimental plugins for Evolution
ii evolution-webc 2.28.0-0ubuntu webcal: URL handler for GNOME and Evolution

Using Ubuntu 9.10

Any suggestions appreciated