On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 04:31:53PM +1000, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I'm in late as usual and not sure of context but if I send an
> attachment with OSX Mail I'm asked if I want to send a 'Windows
> friendly' version and many programs, espcially cross platform like
> Office allow me to save in Windows useable versions. Is that specific
> output?
> Andrew Fildes
A complete e-mail is made up of a series of 'parts' including a header &
some attachments (e.g. text/plain, text/html, text/quoted-printable
etc.) As e-mail is plain text only, when you attach something like
images or lairy flashing logos etc., mail client software uses one of
the many data encoding standards (base-64, uuencode etc.) that convert
your 8-bit binary data into strings of 7-bit 'non-whitespace' ASCII, &
attaches it labelled as image/gif, application/x-pdf,
application/octet-stream etc., etc.).
Unless one made changes to settings, older versions of outlook used to
put ALL of the content, even the text, in a single encoded attachment
called winmail.dat, useless to pretty much anything but windows...
It's pretty sad that a 'windows-friendly' setting even has to exist. It
means the someone (lots of someones) are just not complying with the
ratified standards...
davidt
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