Hi, I'm trying to understand 8bit emails. Using mutt I send an email with a jpeg attached, for the jpeg I specify 8bit encoding. I send the email off and although it's viewable on the other end and appears to be intact (i.e. I can view it) doing a diff between the emailed jpeg and the original shows that there are differences.
All servers along the way are postfix. I've tried sending 8bit email with kmail as well and with kmail the files are different as well, so different that the emailed copy doesn't resemble the original in any way when viewed. I always use base64 encoding personally (well occasionally uuencoding) I am asking this because a customer of mine seems convinced of the need for 8bit encoding. According to what I see in postfix docs and http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1652.html things should work. Does anyone have some pointers on where things might be going wrong? Is there an 8bit email FAQ somewhere (doesn't have to be postfix specific). Here the smtp session captured with sniffing session on the remote server: EHLO mail.customer.com MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=27501 BODY=8BITMIME RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DATA Received: by mail.customer.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 49B193FF2; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:04:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:04:59 -0400 From: Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline asdf --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="self_service.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 8bit garbage starts here ... -- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wehave.net/ Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux
