I am still working out how to manage my new Real Life job better so that Hawk Wings gets more of my time.

Most recently, while I was busy…

1. KIT (”Keep It Together”), a nice personal information manager that almost gives Yojimbo a run for its money, was substantially updated. It now boasts a slicker interface, searchable tags, five star rating (à la iTunes) and more — see the full changelog for all the improvements.
2. OMIC got an update too. This utility which unpacks the dreaded winmail.dat files Outlook users sometimes send (see earlier Hawk Wings review) now has support for installation over Apple Remote Desktop and for RTF text, and is packaged in a smarter installer.
3. MailRecent 1.0.3 now adds any moves or copies using a MailRecent menu to the “Move to … Again” (or “Copy to … Again”) menu items in the Message menu and the corresponding contextual menu. This means that the last “recent” move or copy can be repeated via that menu item or the built-in Mail keyboard shortcut Option-Command-T.

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Sooner or later, all Mail.app users who have any kind of email communication with Outlook users will get a message containing the dreaded unopenable winmail.dat file.

TNEF is a utility that extracts the files buried inside. It can really save your bacon.

Now a developer has wrapped the utility into a mail.app bundle which automatically recognises incoming emails with winmail.dat attachments.

When they arrive, it either opens iCal if the embedded file is an Outlook appointment or prompts you to save the embedded files in a folder of your choice:

I don’t get enough email from Outlook users to need it. Firing up TNEF’s Enough app on the odd occasion is all I need.

If you get a lot of this kind of email, the plugin takes out some extra steps and might be worth the shareware price.

OMiC is shareware (5 euros = USD 6.30) and is available from the developer’s web site . He hopes to make some money from the plugin for his compulsory military service, which begins soon.

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I had occasion at work today to be very grateful for TNEF’s Enough, a utility that decodes those annoying winmail.dat files which Exchange Server users send you when you are marked in their contacts as someone who accepts messages in RTF.

You know the kind of situation. The information that you need for a meeting arrives by email 15 minutes before the meeting starts. Bad enough.

To add to the drama, it is all crammed inside one of those winmail.dat files that Mail can’t process. The Registrar with whom you are meeting is a die-hard PC fan. He thinks that Mac computers are just glorified iPods. He’s gagging for me to come in and say I can’t get at the stuff on my MacBook Pro. It becomes a point of honour.

Thankfully, TNEF’s Enough handles these files very well. Save off the winmail.dat file, open it in Enough and there are your attachments, readable once more.

It’s like magic. You can get TNEF’s Enough from the developer’s web site . Who would be without it?

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Sometimes Apple Mail users get emails from Outlook users in which the attachments appear as winmail.dat files. Not helpful.

This happens when the email passes through a Microsoft Exchange server and you are set in the Outlook user’s contacts as someone who can receive messages in “Rich Text”.

You can ask the user to change your settings in their contacts, but walking them through that on the phone often takes ten times longer than decoding the offending attachment yourself.

TNEF’s Enough is a utility that can decode these attachments. Simply save the winmail.dat file to the Desktop, launch TNEF’s Enough and open the winmail.dat file from the utility’s File menu. TNEF’s Enough works its magic, and you get a readable attachment.

TNEF’s Enough is freeware and available from the developer’s web site.

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