Re: [Evolution] oledata.mso

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sep 16, 2010, at 8:05 AM, William Kenworthy wrote:

> Ive just received an email that was sent using the "send to" of MS  
> word.
> The word document is apparently embedded in the document (and evo
> displays it inline reasonably well) but the attachment bar only  
> shows a
> png image (which was embedded in the original word document) and
> oledata.mso which is apparently a "how to display the document" info
> file.  The email message has numerous "parts" which probably  
> include the
> original document.
>
> Is it possible to either access the original word document, or recover
> it from either within evo or another application working on the raw
> email data file without resorting to outlook?

It probably needs an OLE implementation to be read, but I'm no expert  
in MS garbage.

If it were me, I'd tell the sender to resend using standard Internet  
mail. The trouble
with futzing around looking for a solution at your end is that your  
correspondent won't
notice there's a problem, which only encourages them. The whole point  
of using
standards is to avoid having to deal with this nonsense.

poc