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Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> I have a question: what is the supposed encoding to be used when
> sending a pdf file as attachment ?

base64.

> I currently use base64 encoding which seems to be problematic for
> Outlook users.

In which way?

> Here is how I set it up:
>
> ,----
> | (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)
> |         ("application/pdf" base64)
> |         (".*" base64)))
> `----

The application/pdf entry is redundant.  Everything that doesn't have
an entry is base64 encoded, so adding the pdf entry does not make any
difference.