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+Several Microsoft Windows email applications support the Transport Neutral
+Encapsulation Format (TNEF). This is a method for MAPI compliant mail programs
+to transfer data to each other across gateways. Generally, a mail agent will
+create a MIME multipart message containing the text body of the mail message,
+and a single attachment of type application/ms-tnef. This attachment at least
+follows the format of MIME messages, if not the intent. Usually, this bitstream
+contains no more information than is already contained in the headers and body
+of the message, but instead of attaching attachments to the email message as
+separate MIME attachments, they are included in the TNEF attachment. To handle
+this, I wrote a program tnef2txt which will dump the information in the TNEF
+bitstream, and also dump files to disk which are contained in the bitstream.
+Just run the program without arguments for usage information. You can call this
+program from a mailcap file with the following line: 
+
+application/ms-tnef; tnef2txt %s; copiousoutput
+
+or, if you wish to save attachments to disk which are in the bitstream: 
+
+application/ms-tnef; tnef2txt -s %s; copiousoutput