Mail.DecodeTNEF Method

Decode the winmail.dat (TNEF attachment) in current mail instance. If the TNEF contains RTF body, this method also converts RTF body to HTML body automatically.

[Visual Basic]
Public Sub DecodeTNEF( _
)

[C#]
public void DecodeTNEF(
);

[C++]
public: void DecodeTNEF(
);

[JScript]
public function DecodeTNEF( 
);

Example

[Visual Basic, C#] The following example demonstrates how to deal with the winmail.dat attachment. To get the full samples of EAGetMail, please refer to Samples section. 

[Visual Basic - Parse Attachment]
Imports EAGetMail

Public Sub ParseAttachment()
    Dim oMail As New Mail("TryIt")
    oMail.Load("c:\test.eml", False)

    ' Decode winmail.dat (TNEF) automatically
    oMail.DecodeTNEF()

    Dim atts() As Attachment = oMail.Attachments
    
    Dim tempFolder As String = "c:\temp"
    Dim count As Integer = atts.Length
    If (Not System.IO.Directory.Exists(tempFolder)) Then
        System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(tempFolder)
    End If

    For i As Integer = 0 To count - 1
        Dim att As Attachment = atts(i)
        Dim attname As String = String.Format("{0}\{1}", tempFolder, att.Name)
        att.SaveAs(attname, True)
    Next
End Sub



[C# - Parse Attachment]
using System;
using System.Collections;
using EAGetMail;

public void ParseAttachment()
{
    Mail oMail = new Mail("TryIt");
    oMail.Load("c:\\test.eml", false);

    // Decode winmail.dat (TNEF) automatically
    oMail.DecodeTNEF();

    Attachment [] atts = oMail.Attachments;
    int count = atts.Length;
    string  tempFolder = "c:\\temp";
    if(!System.IO.Directory.Exists(tempFolder))
        System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(tempFolder);

    for(int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        Attachment att = atts[i];
        string attname = String.Format("{0}\\{1}", tempFolder, att.Name);
        att.SaveAs(attname , true);
    }
}



[C++ - Parse Attachment]
using namespace System;
using namespace EAGetMail;

Void ParseAttachment()
{
    Mail ^oMail = gcnew Mail("TryIt");
    oMail->Load("c:\\test.eml", false);

    // Decode winmail.dat (TNEF) automatically
    oMail->DecodeTNEF();

    array<Attachment^> ^atts= oMail->Attachments;
    int count = atts->Length;
    String^ tempFolder = "c:\\temp";
    if(!System::IO::Directory::Exists(tempFolder))
        System::IO::Directory::CreateDirectory(tempFolder);

    for(int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        Attachment ^att = atts[i];
        
        String ^attname = String::Format("{0}\\{1}", tempFolder, att->Name);
        att->SaveAs(attname, true);
    }
}



[JScript - Parse Attachment]
function ParseAttachment()
{
    var oMail:Mail = new Mail("TryIt");
    oMail.Load("c:\\test.eml", false);

    // Decode winmail.dat (TNEF) automatically
    oMail.DecodeTNEF();

    var atts:Attachment[] = oMail.Attachments;
    var count:int = atts.Length;
    var tempFolder:String = "c:\\temp";
    if(!System.IO.Directory.Exists(tempFolder))
        System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(tempFolder);

    for(var i:int = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        var att:Attachment = atts[i];
        var attname:String = String.Format("{0}\\{1}", tempFolder, att.Name);
        att.SaveAs(attname , true);
    }
}

Remarks

When an Outlook user composes and sends a message using either Rich Text Format or HTML Format, Outlook automagically generates a file, winmail.dat, and attaches it to the end of the email. The winmail.dat contains the rich text body and original attachments. EAGetMail provides the TNEF parser to decode the winmail.dat. With this feature, you application has the highly compatibility with the outlook email.

Online Tutorials

Parse Email in C# - Tutorial
Parse winmail.dat(TNEF) in C# - Tutorial
Parse Email in VB.NET - Tutorial
Parse winmail.dat(TNEF) in VB.NET - Tutorial
Parse Email in C++/CLI - Tutorial
Parse winmail.dat(TNEF) in C++/CLI - Tutorial