Re: [bug-mailutils] mailutils bug? quoted-printable encoder..

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Shashank Kavishwar wrote:
> I have a PDF attachment that came through an email in quoted-printable 
> encoding. I decode the attachment using the mailutils API and can view 
> it properly. But, if after decoding the attachment file, I encode it 
> again in quoted-printable and then forward it to myself, the PDF file 
> becomes corrupted. Is there a problem with the quoted-printable encoder?
>
>  
>
> I am using mailutils-0.4.

PDFs are binary files. QP is not good enough for encoding PDFs. Consider 
what happens to the line-endings. If you send from a Unix system to a 
Windows system, the line endings will get converted from LF to CRLF, 
which corrupts the PDF.

There's a bug in older versions of Exchange which means that it encodes 
PDFs using QP. I think there's a work-around in MS's Knowledge Base.

Send PDFs as Base64.

Bye, Rich =]

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