OT: MIME content type for email

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:38:51AM -0800, Bill Campbell, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 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.

Most mail I get would have it encoded as base64, actually.

The quoted-printable encoding is the one that changes characters to things
like =3E and such.  Maybe the mail client on the Mac isn't capable of
handling that encoding, or is mis-handling it?

In either case, I think a PDF should be encoded with base64, not
quoted-printable.

> >Can this be controlled in Outlook Express?
> 
> That I can't say.

Me either, other than using OE is a bad idea to start with.  It's arguably
worse than Outlook (their engines are different under the hood, and their
idea of MIME encoding whole messages differs at some fundamental levels).

Tried installing Thunderbird to try it, or something?

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