Re: [Evolution] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:49, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 15:25, Armin Bauer wrote:
> > Is there a way to change to Content-Transfer-Encoding?
> > Normally Evolution sends base64 encoded attachments.
> > We have partners who use old version of outlook which
> > obviously always assumes a 7bit encoding.
> >
> > So when we sent a attached .doc and they opened it, it was
> > completely unreadable.
> >
> > Is there a way to solve this problem?
>
> upgrade the server ;-)
>
> but seriously, base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding is one of the originally
> defined encodings specified by the MIME specifications.
>
> what other encoding would you have Evolution send? base64 is the only
> encoding that can possibly be used for word docs (since they contain
> binary data). You can't send word docs as non-encoded 7bit ascii.
>
> Jeff

I suppose one could uuencode binaries and attach them as text files. :-P

-Mark Gordon