On Fri, 08 Mar 2002, Craig Hughes wrote:
> On 3/6/02 8:35 AM, "Geoff Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>> The whole line of yelling is in fact part of the body of the
>> base-64 encoding. It seems somewhat harsh to block a message
>> purely on the basis that it contains an attachment.
>
> It's not purely that it contains an attachment -- it's that the
> attachment has a MIME type of text/* and that it's been base64-encoded
> anyway.
It's worth noting that Gnus, an Emacs based mail reader, will encode a
text/* part in base64 if (a) it's allowed to and (b) it's more
efficient, transport-wise, than using quoted-printable.
I have been bitten by MUA authors who *know* what encoding readable
parts and attachments (which are, as we all know, binary) use.
Sending PDF files is almost always more efficient when sent as QP, not
base64. Sadly, /most/ Windows mail clients *know* the QP should have
it's line endings converted from Unix to DOS format, corrupting the
file...
...so, do watch out. Some people do send plain text base64 encoded...
Daniel
--
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but
in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
-- H. L. Mencken
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