Re: gnus sends corrupt attachments

["Johan Kullstam" <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Johan Kullstam <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net> writes:
> 
> > in light of the apparent unreliability of quoted-printable, should
> > this setup be made the default?
> 
> I don't think that QP is unreliable per se.  It's just that long lines
> are a problem.  QP provides a way for dealing with long lines: if a
> line ends with `=', a continuation line follows.
> 
> Maybe QP encoding should make use of this to restrict maximum line
> lengths to 70 characters or so?
> 
> But maybe that PDF file was an all-ASCII file.  Gnus doesn't do any
> encoding when that happens, I think.

the pdf was all ascii but had CR (^M) instead of LF (^J) or CR/LF
(^M^J) to break lines.

the handling of flat text files usually comes with some assumption
about maximum line length.  exceeding that length can cause trouble.
it will almost certainly be bigger than 70.  perhaps 140 would be a
good value?  (i.e., long enough so that regular text sprinkled with
the odd 8 bit value wouldn't normally wrap but short enough such that
tools wouldn't mangle it.)

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