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"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?

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