remove winmail.dat

[ericjacobowitz]

Anyone have a script to remove the winmail.dat file that sometimes gets attached to an email from Outlook users?

[Michael]

I don't but I also offer a word of caution here, if the sender is attaching a word document to their email there are circumstances when it will be sent within the winmail.dat file!

[ericjacobowitz]

Here is the script that I have, but it is not working

     ReadAttached $AttachedFiles %message
     If "winmail" ^ $AttachedFiles Then WinMailPrefix
     Exit
     :WinMailPrefix
     If ".dat" ^ $AttachedFiles Then WinMail
     Exit
     :WinMail
     DeleteAttached "winmail.dat"

What am I missing?

[Michael]

If you are running this script against incoming messages it should work, if you are running it against selected messages after they have arrived you will need to add a "SaveMessage" command to the script. This will probably duplicate the message. This is ok for now (until you've tested it), when you are satisfied then you can add a "DeleteMessage" command before the SaveMessage command (and test that on a sample message before commiting to the change).

Here is a sample of code for the SaveMessage command. The AppendToFile may be unnecessary due to recent changes but I typically put it in in case people using older versions of Poco get hold of the script.

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  AppendToFile True
  SaveMessage %Message $CurrentMailbox