Re: mail.app problem
Re: mail.app problem
- Subject: Re: mail.app problem
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:55:36 -0700
On 5/12/2004 13:17, "Sascha Kuehn" <email@hidden> wrote:
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hi,
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i try to make a new outgoing message in mail.app.
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all works file, but i need to attach a pdf file to it. and exactly here
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is the problem: i don't know how.
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can anybody help me?
Dave has answered "how".
However, be warned. Depending on your intended recipients, you many not
want to. As it happens, I've wasted most of the day today with attached PDF
files.
You'll be fine if your recipient is another Macintosh user who uses
Mail.app. You could very well--depending on the PDF--have recipients on
either Linux or Windows tell you the attachment is corrupt. Or even
Macintosh recipients. (The problem is the same if the attachment comes from
Outlook or Outlook Express on Windows, to a Mac or to Linux, etc.)
The underlying problem is that the encoding of the attachment Mail.app will
use will be quoted-printable. And seemingly it is quoted-printable which
does not comply with the RFCs that define quoted printable. (Outlook on
Windows definitely does not comply.) I sent a PDF earlier today from
Mail.app to Mac Eudora. Eudora tried to display it inline--that caused
QuickTime to cause Eudora to crash. Then each of the next four apps which
came to the front after the prior crash crashed. Restart time.
Microsoft Entourage on the other hand encodes attached PDFs using base64,
and all is well (although the resulting email message is much larger).
Eudora also seems to send the PDF beast correctly.
For some more information from the Outlook perspective, see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2003/10/msg00033.html
And the message it in turn contains a link to.
--John
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