[horde] attachment decoding

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Thu Feb 5 01:12:51 UTC 2009


On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Steve Devine wrote:

> We have a school system who regularly sends out newsletters to parents.
> These newsletters are sent out as pdf attachments but within IMP they
> show up inline as base 64 characters.
> The same email when opened in Thunderbird, Outlook, or Mac Mail work
> fine (the pdf is listed as an attachment.)
> This same issue occurs with 2 other email web-apps (squirrelmail and
> roundcube) and with Eudora so I know its not necessarily a bug or
> failure in the IMP code but I don't know quite how to answer those that
> ask me why it is doing this.
> Any thoughts?

Is it actually a mime attachment?  We have folks at our school sending 
UUencoded "attachments" but I have turned off UUdecode support in Horde 
due to the performance hit (plus I want them to use MIME anyways).

 	Andy


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