OT: e-mail madness

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 02:01, James McDonald wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:57 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > >
> > > Therein lies the problem: central administration. User settings are not
> > > used. I expect that all are using Word as the editor so they get the
> > > desired Verdana 9 font. All set up for them by central admin.
> > >
> > > Remember when a PC on the desktop meant freedom from a data center?
> > > Making your own choices. All that stuff.
> > 
> > THat was before users were installing everyh cute piece of spyware that
> > their friends sent them, and clicked on every email that came into their
> > INBOX.  Central adminstration is the answer to users who are too stujpid
> > to think independently without blowing off their feet.
> > 
> I go selectively deaf to the words "Can I have admin access to my PC".
> If you let them have it you find alsorts of stuff embedded into their
> computers.
> 
> Regarding gnome/evolution how do you set up a file association for
> application/ms-tnef to a shell script. It appears that evolution has the
> ability to save as... and open in the gnome default app but I can't seem
> to find the entry to allow it to open the app of my choice?
> 
> is it something in ~/.mailcap ?

Nope. That would be the standard place to look. So who does that?

I see that I can configure the mime type in gnome-control-center, which
I installed just for this type of thing. I get so far that I can get my
preferred text describing the attachment. But, as tnef is a program
without an interface, you probably cannot do much more. Read on.

When I heard that e-mail would be in a specific font, I figured that it
would be html, possibly with a plain text part as well. I was wrong. I
see that it is even more evil:

To get the text layout, all outlook users now use word as their e-mail
editor. Outlook just does this. When the mail is to be sent, it is sent
as RTF, which in encoded in TNEF format, along with any attachments. It
does seem to also send a plain text version of the e-mail as well. The
TNEF part is an attachment that outlook will automatically show instead
of the plain text part. Well, as I said, the TNEF also contains
attachments (zips, exec, pdfs, you know the stuff). Something tells me
that you must tell outlook to automatically run tnef attachments if you
want to see the nice company standard font...

I suspect that Linux users will deal more and more with TNEF
attachments...


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