From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35111 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Speight Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MML 'encoding' tag value ignored... Date: 28 Feb 2001 16:39:12 +0000 Organization: Citrix Systems Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87d7c3o54j.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170905 1235 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:28:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03478D049D for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:40:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB31442; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:40:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:39:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA24249 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:39:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com (gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com [195.153.38.114]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3094ED049D for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:39:29 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sh.ctxuk.citrix.com (sh.ctxuk.citrix.com [10.30.224.4]) by gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com (8.8.7/BSCF-1.7) with ESMTP id QAA27707 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:39:27 GMT Original-Received: from hwvwall01.ctxuk.citrix.com (hwvwall01.ctxuk.citrix.com [10.30.224.27]) by sh.ctxuk.citrix.com (8.8.7/BSCF-1.7) with SMTP id QAA20368 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:39:26 GMT Original-Received: from 10.30.224.101 by hwvwall01.ctxuk.citrix.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:38:39 -0000 (GMT Standard Time) Original-Received: by hwexch01.ctxuk.citrix.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <1A4A10ZT>; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:39:25 -0000 Original-Received: from lanber.cam.eu.citrix.com ([10.70.128.81]) by hwexch01.ctxuk.citrix.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 1A4A10Z3; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:39:13 -0000 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 X-Face: wqk-$Z5Z In article <87d7c3o54j.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net>, 0> Daniel Pittman ("Daniel") wrote: Daniel> In trying to work out why a PDF file was being corrupted when Daniel> sent from Gnus to several Win32 mailers, I found two things. Daniel> Daniel> Firstly, Gnus was selecting quoted-printable encoding for the Daniel> PDF file. This was then incorrectly decoded by both Outlook Daniel> and Eudora on the Win32 machine, resulting in a corrupt PDF Daniel> file. Daniel> Daniel> Specifically, LF => CRLF conversion was happening on the Win32 Daniel> machine. Now, I don't know the QP spec well, so I can't tell Daniel> if this is correct behaviour for the Win32 machines. I think the fix for this is to quote LF and CR in non-text parts: -> =0A= -> =0D= -> =0D=0A= Daniel> If it is, though, I think that 'application/.*' MIME entities Daniel> should be encoded with base64 exclusively, to avoid this sort Daniel> of problem. I thought you could Configure that somehow? [/me RTFMs] `mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults' is what you're looking for, though it's not defcustom in 5.8.3.