Re: DOS text file attachments.

2008-02-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-07 00:14:02, schrieb Kyle Wheeler: What if the file had been left as-is, and the line endings had been recognized as not needing conversion? The receiver would receive a correctly encoded text/plain attachment, and when saving that attachment to disk, his MUA would convert the

Re: DOS text file attachments.

2008-02-06 Thread scott . mutt
I think the point that the people on the Postfix mailing list were trying to make is that the MUA (in this case mutt) should not be sending something to the MTA that is marked as text/plain, but has CRLF line endings since text/plain on Unix has just LF line endings. Me, I don't know what

Re: DOS text file attachments.

2008-02-06 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, February 7 at 12:01 AM, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the point that the people on the Postfix mailing list were trying to make is that the MUA (in this case mutt) should not be sending something to the MTA that is marked as

DOS text file attachments.

2008-02-05 Thread scott . mutt
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

Re: DOS text file attachments.

2008-02-05 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, February 5 at 03:27 PM, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: DOS text file attachments.

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 5 Feb 2008 10:00 -0600, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kyle Wheeler): The best way to send a DOS file, if it needs to *stay* a DOS file, is to compress it (e.g. to zip it) and send the compressed form. When it is decompressed, it will return to its original DOS form. This will obviously work. I