winmail.dat

[Jerry3904]

Tax time, and now I received an attachment named as in the subject line with directions on how to deal with it for Windows and Mac users.

Part 1
A quick web search on "linux winmail.dat" pointed to a tool named tnef which is in the repos. Installed it and opened a terminal where I had downloaded the file from the email, and typed:

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tnef winmail.dat

Bing, there was the highly-secret PDF in the same directory.

Part 2
I could see the signature form, but could not print it with the default qpdfview. I was in a hurry, so took a screen capture, pasting that in a document, printing that doc, signing it, and scanning it to a PDF. Master PDF Editor, I subsequently ascertained, was able to print it correctly.

[jonnken]

Good post...nice work...always informative seeing...how to work things out.