[imp] Re: Re: Corrupted attachment and others

[Lextor Tan]

Problem solved.

My problem was the same as Oscar A. Valdez
Subject: IMP: problem with attachments

Thanks to Oscar A. Valdez and Eric Rostetter.

Best regards
Lextor Tan

"Andrew Morgan" <morgan at orst.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.OSF.4.33.0304110818170.238834-100000 at ucs.orst.edu...
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Lextor Tan wrote:
>
> > Solution anyone?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Lextor Tan
> >
> > "Lextor Tan" <lextan at empire-network.net> wrote in message
> > news:b73mlq$sh6$1 at main.gmane.org...
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > We have Horde 2.2.1 final, IMP 3.2.1 final, Qmail, courier-imap 1.7.1
and
> > > Vpopmail  installed.
> > >
> > > When we attach files like, *.jpg, *.zip or *.xls it gets corrupted
> > > (increased size).
> > > No problem with *.txt though.
>
> Are you sure they are getting corrupted and not just base64 encoded?  If
> you look at the raw message text for a message with binary files
> mime-attached to it, you'll see a header about Content-type-encoding:
> base64.  Base64 encoding does increase the size of the attachment.  Any
> mime-capable mail program (including IMP) will be able to decode the
> base64 back into it's original state.
>
> Andy
>
>
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