I agree about the not-exe: I routinely send files to and from home (home=Mac, office in Win). Exe files are not accepted by the system at all. Zip is fine, but I never had any problems by leaving the smart-option on.
Mirko > don't send just an .exe - many email programs might think this could be > spam. make a .zip out of it (drop zip) and then send it base64 - that > should work. > > ---marlyse > > > -------------------------former message(s) > quotes:------------------------- >>I just tried to send a self extracting stuffit archive for windows, and >>figured that since it was effectively a windows file (it has an .exe >>suffix) and was going to a windows user I should use Base64 encoding. PM >>threw up a warning saying that it had reverted the encoding choice to >>Smart because Base 64 would corrupt the file. I appreciate the warning >>from PM but an confused by it; AFAIK windows files (even applications >>like this self extracting archive) don't have resource forks so why would >>Base64 be unsuitable? > > > > -- Mirko Kranenburg Maastricht, Netherlands e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OS X 10.2.6, QuickSilver 733, 1Gb RAM Freeway Pro 3.5, NavPak, GraphPak PowerMail 4.1.3, 3 panes
