[horde] attachment decoding

[Steve Devine]

Quoting "Andrew Morgan" <morgan at orst.edu>:

> 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
>
>

Well
This is what it looks like:
---_=_XXX_MAIL_002_050202
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;  name="CasinoRoyale.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: CasinoRoyale.pdf
Content-Disposition: attachment;
         filename="CasinoRoyale.pdf"

JVBERi0xLjMNJeLjz9MNCjQgMCBvYmogPDwvTGluZWFyaXplZCAxL0wgMzk5NDE0L08gNi9FIDM4
MTA2MS9OIDEvVCAzOTkyOTMvSCBbIDU4NzYgNjM3XT4+DWVuZG9iag0gICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg


with lots of lines of the above.

Steve Devine
Email & Storage
Academic Technical Services
Michigan State University

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