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How to Convert Mail Attachments Received in TNEF Format

Mar 20, 2014  •  8 min. read

Email messages sent with Microsoft Outlook sometimes use the Rich Text format, or TNEF format. Such messages, when read using other email clients, contain a single attachment named winmail.dat, and any files that the sender may have attached to the message cannot be opened. This article describes how to integrate Axigen with MIMEDefang with the purpose to convert such attachments to a readable format.

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