Hello
I am having a problem sending a DOS text file as an attachment. I am
running mutt version 1.5.11 on Linux, my MTA is Postfix.
When I attach a DOS text file the mime type is text/plain and the encoding
is 7bit. When the person at the other end (I get the same results sending
it to myself) opens the attachment all lines are double spaced, i.e. each
line has an extra CRLF on the end (when received on Linux it has 2 LFs on
the end of each line rather than one). I have done some digging and it
seems that postfix (the MTA) converts the LF at the end of each line into a
CRLF so each line of the attachment ends up with CRCRLF, then something on
the server adds the LF in the middle. I suspected that this was a postfix
problem and so emailed the postfix list, discuss can be found here :
http://groups.google.com/group/list.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/4b881735fc266c39
which shows most of it.
The summary of this is that since I am running on Linux text/plain MUST
have unix line endings rather than DOS and so Mutt should convert the CRLF
to LF before sending the file to the MTA.
I was wondering what the mutt users thought about this.....and if they
could help me with my problem.
Thanks
Scott.
