Invites using application/ms-tnef not showing as calendar invites

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I received what looked like a nearly blank email but looking deeper (and after calling the sender) I see it was supposed to be a calendar invite.  The sender is using Outlook.  What I received was:

–_000_BN8PR15MB2756B92CED9A47544C8EA3C6E99C0BN8PR15MB2756namp_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=“iso-8859-1”
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Try again

–_000_BN8PR15MB2756B92CED9A47544C8EA3C6E99C0BN8PR15MB2756namp_
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=“winmail.dat”
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; name=“winmail.dat”

eJ8+IjZdAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEJgAEAIQAAAEEwNURDNzBF
MzFGRkY3NENCMzIwRDcyRjg0MjY4NEE1AD0HAQ2ABAACAAAAAgACAAEFgAMADgAAAOMHCgACAA8A
…etc…

That “winmail.dat” never shows.  Anyone have ideas on what I need to do for eM to process this correctly?

My mail server is IMAP coming into eM.  I had the sender send it to my gmail account and it displayed/worked fine.

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Hi James,

There’s nothing you can do in eM Client.
The “fault”- such as it is, lies in the format that the sender uses.
Rather than “Rich Text” they should use either HTML or plain text and turn off rtf- or tnef.
for sending you an invite or other message
Long article here
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/290809/how-e-mail-message-formats-affect-internet-e-mail-messages-in-outlook

You may want to send this info to the sender as well

Peter

3

Thank you! I will inform the sender; hopefully they will be willing to adjust. If not, well, that’s fewer meetings for me!

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Hi James.
Thanks for the feedback and *
It’s not a big deal for the sender - the setting can be done globally or
per recipient -as indicated in the article.

But I like your “take on it”  teehee  “unload” …