From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: PDF's as base64 vs. Q/P encoded attachments
Date: 27 Aug 1999 21:07:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31zcp6nzs.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Graham Todd's message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1999 05:13:18 GMT"
Graham Todd <gtodd@yorku.ca> writes:
> So Gnus now tries to encode PDF's I create as Q/P (I'm pretty sure it
> didn't do this before). The problem is that receiving PDF's as Q/P
> seems to break the MIME handling of the Windows version of Netscape
> Mail somehow so that Windows users that I correspond with couldn't
> read the attached PDF files in Acrobat.
Ack. I was afraid of that.
What I was afraid of is this: When a user agent receives something
that is qp'd, it "knows" that it has gotten text. So it decodes the
qp, and then does lots of "helpful" things, like (say) doing LF-CRLF
conversion, or highlighting URLs, or folding lines, or whatever.
Could we try to find out whether this is what's happening, or whether
it's Gnus' qp-ing that's buggy?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-27 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-16 5:13 Graham Todd
1999-07-16 10:22 ` Toby Speight
1999-07-21 22:18 ` Graham Todd
1999-08-27 19:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-16 16:39 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-07-21 22:19 ` Graham Todd
1999-08-27 19:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1999-09-22 9:41 ` [PATCH] [BUG] Binary attachments use wrong encoding (was Re: PDF's as base64 vs. Q/P encoded attachments) Kim-Minh Kaplan
1999-09-22 14:16 ` Kim-Minh Kaplan
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