Hi there!
On 28 Apr 00, at 11:50, Gary wrote
about "Re[2]: attachments sent as octet stream again":
> >> It seems that anytime I send an attachment now, it is sent as octet,
> >> even this exe file. I have not tried this with Beta 20 though.
>
> >> Anyone have any thoughts, comments, or suggestions?
>
> S> That's an example of MIME-Encapsulation and base64 encoding. It's one
> S> of those Good Things (tm). :-)
>
> The recipient does not get an attachment, although I send it as an
> attachment, but his email is filled with octet in the message body, as
> above. This has been happening a lot with my attachments to various
> people.
What e-mail clients are these people using? There still exist many MUAs that
do not deal with MIME properly;-(
Another thing: if you think it's TB responsible for these problems, will you be
so kind as to send here a _full_ example (together with the headers) of the
problematic message? Better yet, ask one of your correspondents to send
you the offending message back _without_editing_ (i.e. resend or bounce
feature, in Pegasus it's called "forward w/o editing", for example).
Finally, as for your question on octet-streams, this is no problem. Executables
are _usually_ sent using octet/stream content-types, although not always. In
fact, content-type doesn't really matter since the only thing that _does_ is the
content-transfer-encoding thing. In your case it's obviously base64, which's
okay as far as I can see.
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