From: Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id: <199912031958.OAA14956@spock2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject: Re: Second symlink patch
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:58:17 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se
In-Reply-To: <384815B7.CDDF3C43@softhome.net> from "Laurynas Biveinis" at Dec 3, 99 09:10:47 pm
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Bonjour M. Laurynas Biveinis

> Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > 
> > > --------------3F514F36E978CB8A47763C51
> > > Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed;
> > >  name="symlink2.zip"
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> > > Content-Disposition: inline;
> > >  filename="symlink2.zip"
> > >
> > > UEsDBBQAAAAIAISagyc2k/dmIFMAAOsUAQANAAAAc3ltbGluazIuZGlmZtxce1PjxrL/m1Tl
> > > O0z2VBYbyUaSbTAmbELAu5eExxaPk01tthTZlm0FWXIkGcNN8t1Pd89DI/kB7G5O3Vxq1xbz
> > > aM10T//6MTMMguGQ1WaslrDBb6PptB6Hg+0g6oezgb897EdZWB/zmnLpl1/UarXVnTbO4oj9
> > 
> > Aargh! Why are you sending it encoded?
> 
> I don't know :-( Netscape has been sending zips always correctly for me
> (Including first symlink patch.) Time to switch to another MUA.
> 

Must of the time when you are sending binary file, it is better to
encode it wheter uuencode or base64 it does not matter.
Some MTA may be stubburn and reject the mail if not ascii clean.
This is changing and now some new MUA (wheter by lazyness or not) will
not bother to encode emails, for example in french, to quoted printable.
This is true also for the headers, where it should be 7bit clean.
So you'll have things like int the From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?=


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au revoir, alain
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Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!