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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)



On 2020-03-30 at 14:32, David Wright wrote:

> On Sat 28 Mar 2020 at 10:30:07 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> 
>> On Vi, 27 mar 20, 23:15:12, David Wright wrote:
>> 
>>> However, the actual problem that Russell introduced was how a 
>>> character set—any character set—should be encoded in the email
>>> header parameter's value. And the RFC answer is "not in Base64",
>>> which is for unstructured fields, as illustrated by the header of
>>> my previous post. Mutt, as expected, writes conformant values but
>>> can be instructed to decode particular non-conformant ones.
>> 
>> So any test involving mutt as source is irrelevant.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure who's testing what. AIUI Russell is happy to
> switch to Thunderbird for those attachments from the cattle raisers
> association. Richard Hector was unable to save the empty Romanian
> attachment, so I posted a non-empty version to see whether it was the
> emptiness or the name that was the problem. No reply.

FWIW, as another Thunderbird user, I likewise couldn't save the empty
attachment (it didn't give an error, when I was using "save as", but
the file never showed up in the filesystem), but saving the non-empty
one by the exact same method produced a file just fine.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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