Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List, is there a (Debian) way to ask Thunderbird to encode `text' (as LaTeX source file) attachment ? In fact I recently experienced the follwing: one of my correspond ask to send him a LaTeX source in attachment, so I did it with Thunderbird, but unfortunately my correspondant uses Pine which shows the LaTeX source in plain text, hence some misunderstandings. Meanwhile I heard that Pine encode its attached files, hence my question.
Can't the recipient still save the attachment? It's split up via MIME, and still quite clearly an attached file; it's just not encoded. If Pine displays it as if it were inline, that's Pine's problem. Regardless, it should still give an option to save the file.
The only difference if it were Base64 encoded would be that the LaTeX source could not possibly be modified in transit. Is this the problem? I don't know much about LaTeX... but I hope it's like HTML in that it would not be affected by wrapping and/or whitespace changes. Perhaps it would be best to gzip the LaTeX file before sending it... That way, it would definitely be encoded in Base64. However, the recipient would then have to gunzip it. Have you tried to find an extension for Thunderbird to Base64 encode text attachments? https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=thunderbird -- C. Chad Wallace, B.Sc. The Lodging Company http://skihills.com/ OpenPGP Public Key ID: 0x262208A0