[imp] Why does imp convert attachments?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Andreas Geesen <ag at netside.de>:

> Hi,
>
> i seem to have severe problems with forwarding messages. My last problem
> is on bugs.horde now, but there's another bug(?).
>
> I receive a message with an attached file. That file has got following
> headers:
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="PWoctet-stream1"
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="SBLPRODINF.TXT"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> Everything is ok with that file right now, but after forwarding this
> mail (to myself on horde/imp) the file has following headers
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="SBLPRODINF.TXT"
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="SBLPRODINF.TXT"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> and the text file i download is different from the original file.

IMP will *never* send messages in 8bit.  So I don't know what's going on here.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]