Re: Eudora and "Macintosh information"
Re: Eudora and "Macintosh information"
- Subject: Re: Eudora and "Macintosh information"
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:09:46 -0500
At 11:34 PM -0800 3/3/03, John W Baxter wrote:
At 18:27 -0500 3/3/2003, Rob Jorgensen wrote:
I have a Eudora script that's used in conjunction with OS X's new DPF
workflow feature. The script simply attaches a PDF to a new Eudora
message. One user has advised me that Windows Outlook Express users
are receiving two attachments for each PDF.
I suspect that this might be caused by a particular Eudora setting
but I'm not sure. Eudora has a setting to "Always include Macintosh
information" and this setting can be controlled via AppleScript on a
message by message basis. Unfortunately, when set to false, and when
the setting is disabled in Eudora's Settings, the user reports the
same problem. FYI, encoding is set to Apple Double.
This problem seems to be directly related to Eudora since the user
reports that no such problem exists when using a similar script for
Mail.
Apple Double, which is a file format described in a rather old Internet RFC
(along with Apple Single, another RFC I believe), is two files to represent
a Macintosh file...the data fork in one file and the Resource fork and
Finder information if included in the other. (Apple developed the format
for use with the GE network which carried AppleLink.) Apple Single carries
both parts in a single file, and is a little harder to unwind.
Each file goes as an attachment, so it is expected that there will be two
attachments at the other end. Applications--from any world--which care
about email RFCs can put them together appropriately...where on Windows,
"appropriately" usually means tossing out the resource fork.
For you PDF, try the uuencode data fork attachment format...that way you're
tossing out the resources (which aren't important with a PDF) rather than
expecting your victim (er, recipient) to do so.
Mail probably isn't selecting Apple Double as the format.
Eudora's "uuencode data fork" setting appears to have solved the
problem for the Windows recipients and I see no difference on my Mac.
Thanks John!
--
Rob Jorgensen
Ohio, USA
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