From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24872 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: PDF's as base64 vs. Q/P encoded attachments Date: 27 Aug 1999 21:07:51 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162364 11118 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:06:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:06:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10388 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:12:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB23389; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:10:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:11:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12454 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:11:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (bang.netfonds.no [195.1.89.231]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10302 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:10:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA13236; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:12:40 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Lois McMaster Bujold's _The Mirror Game_ X-Now-Playing: Joni Mitchell's _Turbulent Indigo_: "Not To Blame" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Graham Todd's message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1999 05:13:18 GMT" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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