From: "Johan Kullstam" <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus sends corrupt attachments
Date: 19 Sep 1999 15:36:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2g10a7kxm.fsf@sophia.axel.nom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Rene H. Larsen"'s message of "19 Sep 1999 10:27:43 +0200"
"Rene H. Larsen" <renehl@post1.tele.dk> writes:
> kullstam@ne.mediaone.net writes:
>
> > i am using pgnus 0.96 and am having some trouble with attachments.
> > when i attach a binary (e.g., pdf or zip file) the file gets
> > corrupted. the problem is with sending since 1) i can receive
> > attachments sent with other MUAs (mutt or netscape), and 2) other MUAs
> > (mutt) receive the same corrupted attachment.
>
> This is probably because pGnus by default attaches many binary files
> using quoted printable encoding rather than the more robust base64
> encoding. Try putting this in your .gnus and see if it helps:
>
> ;;; Disable QP for unknown (binary) mime types.
> (setq mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults
> '(("text/x-patch" 8bit)
> ("text/.*" qp-or-base64)
> ("message/rfc822" 8bit)
> ("application/emacs-lisp" 8bit)
> ("application/x-patch" 8bit)
> (".*" base64)))
thank you. this seems to have worked beautifully.
in light of the apparent unreliability of quoted-printable, should
this setup be made the default?
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[kullstam@ne.mediaone.net]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-19 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-19 2:40 kullstam
1999-09-19 8:27 ` Rene H. Larsen
1999-09-19 19:36 ` Johan Kullstam [this message]
1999-09-19 20:37 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-19 22:22 ` Johan Kullstam
1999-09-20 10:39 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-09-20 19:49 ` Raja R Harinath
1999-09-22 21:19 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-09-25 9:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-26 5:52 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-09-27 17:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-25 9:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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