Re: [OT] What are the MIME rules for email attachments
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard - We have the same problem with Notes trying to help us out (read, bit-mangle) with attachments. The best thing I know to do is to ZIP/Stuff the file before it's attached. Self-extracting would be the safest, but will add to the file size a bit. HTH...James Thanks for the commiseration. :) I hate to inconvenience my users by making them go find and figure out a compression utility. Thankfully Rev gives us built-in compression, so I added that to our file format. Feels kinda dumb though to have to do silly things like this just to compensate for email vendors who somehow can quite get around to reading the MIME spec. Rule #1 of user interface design: The user is in control. Translation for email software vendors: If the user says it's an attachment, it's an attachment. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
[OT] What are the MIME rules for email attachments
I have a client for whom I've made an app that saves its data in text files. The data is plain text but has a specific structure and I need to keep it intact when it's sent via email. What we're finding is that a lot of email clients will copy text attachments into the body of the email. Why? How do we tell Outlook/Eudora/Hotmail/Mozilla to leave the attachment as an attachment as the user specified? Damn, these emails packages are trying to be too smart for their own good. Is there a rule somewhere that if you're writing an email client the widely-published specs for such things don't apply to you? ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [OT] What are the MIME rules for email attachments
Richard - We have the same problem with Notes trying to help us out (read, bit-mangle) with attachments. The best thing I know to do is to ZIP/Stuff the file before it's attached. Self-extracting would be the safest, but will add to the file size a bit. HTH...James Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/27/04 05:11 PM Please respond to How to use Revolution To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:[OT] What are the MIME rules for email attachments I have a client for whom I've made an app that saves its data in text files. The data is plain text but has a specific structure and I need to keep it intact when it's sent via email. What we're finding is that a lot of email clients will copy text attachments into the body of the email. Why? How do we tell Outlook/Eudora/Hotmail/Mozilla to leave the attachment as an attachment as the user specified? Damn, these emails packages are trying to be too smart for their own good. Is there a rule somewhere that if you're writing an email client the widely-published specs for such things don't apply to you? ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
