ytnef - export files from TNEF archives
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Copyright © 2020 Ricardo Mones
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2.1.2-1build1 2024-04-18 YTNEF(1)
Description
This manual page documents briefly the ytnef program.
This manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a
manual page.
ytnef is a command line utility which allows parsing and extracting the files contained in TNEF
attachments, also known as winmail.dat attachments.
Examples
ytnef -v winmail.dat
Parse winmail.dat with verbose output, don't save files.
ytnef -f . winmail.dat
Parse and save all attachments in winmail.dat to the current directory.
ytnef -F -f . winmail.dat
Parse and save all attachments in winmail.dat to the current directory, also save the message
text to a RTF file.
Name
ytnef - export files from TNEF archives
Options
Option flags are enabled when preceded by minus sign and disabled when preceded by plus sign.
-a|+a Enables/disables saving of intermediate files.
-f|+f Enables/disables saving of attachments.
-v|+v Enables/disables verbose output. This option can be specified multiple times to increase/decrease
the verbosity level of output.
-F|+F Enables/disables saving of the message body as RTF.
-h Displays a brief help message.
Return Value
Returns the number of files which failed to be parsed.
Synopsis
ytnef [+-][afvF] filename [filename [...]]
ytnef-h