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Re: can't attach a *.doc file correctly



On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:13:26PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> I'm trying to attach an MSWord file, but for some reason it is "quoted"
> and not encoded in b64.
> 
>      1 =tmp/mutt-hows-13358-0          [text/plain, 7bit, iso-2022-jp, 0.3K]
>  A     2 ~/.neken/kisozemi/2005/kisozemi.XLS     [applica/excel, base64, 9.5K]
>  A     3 ~/.neken/kisozemi/hyokahyo.doc          [applica/msword, quoted, 28K]
> 
> The weird thing is that an Excel file works fine.  The relevant lines in

Just thought I would mention that I verified that the Word *.doc file
arrived as quoted/printable, i.e., total gibberish.  What controls how
mutt decides what encoding is appropriate?  Why *.xls works and *.doc
doesn't has me totally baffled.  TIA

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