[imp] Problems with Mac Attachments

[Carl Makin]

On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 10:16  PM, Henry Blackman wrote:

> Apparently they are "AppleDouble" encoded... but looking at the headers 
> they
> seem to be MIME/64 as AppleDouble is flagged as "Suitable for Any 
> Computer".
> I'm going to try to find an image that's quite small (the limit on the 
> ML is
> 30K I didn't realise).

The authors of Entourage at Microsoft don't have a good grasp of file 
formats.  Actually the "any computer" setting is only good for mail 
between Macs.  It encodes using AppleDouble which is a binary encoding 
that preserves the data and resource forks.

To send to "any computer" you need to use the "Windows" format which is 
base64 encoding.

Like most microsoft products entourage is littered with little buglets 
like that, but it's still a suprisingly good mailer given where it comes 
from. BTW, if you are using Entourage, you should go into the mail and 
news preferences and disable "allow network access while displaying html 
email".  It will save you spam and possible virus infections.


Carl.