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Re: DOS text file attachments.



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On Tuesday, February  5 at 03:27 PM, quoth scott.mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> The summary of this is that since I am running on Linux text/plain 
> MUST have unix line endings rather than DOS and so Mutt should 
> convert the CRLF to LF before sending the file to the MTA.
>
> I was wondering what the mutt users thought about this.....and if they 
> could help me with my problem.

Mutt shouldn't go converting what you tell it to feed the MTA (mutt 
trusts the user not to tell it to do something silly). Unfortunately, 
email is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism, especially if you're 
looking to preserve something like line endings.

The best way to send a DOS file, if it needs to *stay* a DOS file, is 
to compress it (e.g. to zip it) and send the compressed form. When it 
is decompressed, it will return to its original DOS form.

~Kyle
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