CLAWS-MAIL-TNEF-PARSER(7)

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version 4.4.0 · 6 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

claws-mail-tnef-parser — bestie, this is the thing that decodes TNEF attachments ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so, quick vibe check: this manual page is the lil' intro doc for the claws-mail-tnef-parser package. that's it, that's the summary, we keep it brief 💅

it was written specifically for the Debian™ distribution bc the original program literally doesn't ship a manual page 😭 so the Debian girlies said fine, we'll write one ourselves. periodt.

claws-mail-tnef-parser is a plugin (a loadable module) for the Claws Mail mailer 👑

and what does it do?? it allows decoding of attachments with the "application/ms-tnef" MIME type inside Claws Mail 🌸 you probably know these attachments by their other name — the infamous "winmail.dat" files 🙈 yeah. those ones. she handles them.

🌈 USAGE 🌈

so before any plugin gets to do its thing, you have to tell Claws Mail to load it on startup. no cap, it won't just show up on its own 💜

here's the whole ritual, step by step:

  1. head to the “Configuration” menu on the main window toolbar
  2. open the “Plugins...” dialog
  3. click the “Load plugin...” button
  4. select the plugin file, which is named tnef_parse.so 👑
  5. hit the “Open” button and you're done, slay ✨

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

💜 AUTHORS 💜

  • Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> — wrote the claws-mail-tnef-parser plugin 🌟
  • Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system 🫶

Copyright © 2007-2020 Ricardo Mones

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others). sharing is caring fr fr 💖

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL 📖

mwah, that's a wrap bestie 💅✨ this was Claws Mail's claws-mail-tnef-parser(7), version 4.4.0-1build1, dated 2026-08-21 — ily, go decode some winmail.dat files 🦋🎀

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