🙈 Surprisingly decades later #WinmailDat #TNEF email "attachments" are still a thing. 😵

#Outlook #Exchange

LookOut (Fix Version) Version 6.0 has been uploaded for review on the #Thunderbird add-ons page. We've lost a few features in the re-architecture but the basic ability to to open #Microsoft #TNEF #winmail.dat files was more important. Fixing these regressions should prove... interesting.

Rant: First it was the obnoxious top-posting. Then it was sending non-standard TNEF winmail.dat files to external users by default. Now every link converts to a 500-character safe link, reducing signal-to-noise ratio dramatically. Put it together and it‘s maddening to get an email that says “Here’s a screenshot of what I’m getting. [cid:image001.png(at)01D93F8D.A8233AC0] Can you review the (1300 line!) thread below and comment?” #Rant #Exchange #Microsoft365 #TopPosting #SafeLinks #TNEF #WhyMe

Why I took over maintenance of the Lookout-fix-version addon for #Thunderbird tl;dr #tnef emails still exist

https://peekread.info/tech/20190627-lookout-fix-version/