Extract and view Outlook contacts attachment sent to Gmail
- by matt wilkie
A friend forwarded a contact list to my gmail account from Outlook (2007 or 2010, not sure which). I can see there is an attachment in gmail but when I save it to my local drive it's just a plain text file containing the text This attachment is a MAPI 1.0 embedded message and is not supported by this mail system.
If I use gmail's "show original message" it contains in part:
This is a multipart message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0016_01CC6656.CE12F030
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
------=_NextPart_000_0016_01CC6656.CE12F030
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef;
name="winmail.dat"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="winmail.dat"
eJ8+Ih0VAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy
b3NvZnQgTWFpbC5Ob3RlADEIAQgABQAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAQkABAACAAAAAAAAAAEDkAYASAgAACgA
--8<---snip---8<--
GUC/9NKH95rABgMA/g8HAAAAAwANNP0/pQ4DAA80/T+lDvAm
------=_NextPart_000_0016_01CC6656.CE12F030--
How do I
save the attached winmail.dat properly, and
open the winmail.dat and extract the contact list?
I'm running Windows 7 x64, but have access to an ubuntu linux vmware appliance if needed. I have Outlook 2010, but can't use it to connect directly to gmail as pop3 and imap are blocked by the corporate firewall.
