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

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Richard Dawe <address@hidden> writes:
[snip]
> Then something is broken.  Encoding of CR and LF in binary data should
> be done with =0D and =0A, not using hard line breaks.
>
> > 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.
>
>
> I agree with your conclusion, though.  Sending PDF as QP doesn't work
> well in practice.  Many QP encoders handle CR/LF incorrectly.  Base64
> should be used instead.  But the reason is due to software bugs, not
> an inherent limitation of QP.  Just thought I'd point that out.

Yes, that's true. Thanks for the corrections.

Bye, Rich =]

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