OT: MIME content type for email

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Hoping somebody has a quick answer to a quick question.
>
>Somebody using Outlook Express to email a PDF attachment, received by 
>somebody on a Mac. File appears to have been corrupted as per CR/LF -> CR. 
>How can one prevent this?
>
>Attachment appears to have 
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>Is that the problem? 

Most PDF MIME attachments I have seen are base64 encoded.  I have
never had a problem with these on my Macs, nor have any of our
customers using Linux systems.

>Can this be controlled in Outlook Express?

That I can't say.

Bill
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