Re: [WinMac] Cross-platform email

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:14:54 -0500

At 12:43 PM -0500 12/21/98, Blake Lange wrote:
> I now see where the confusion lies, I think. The point I was making is
> that in practice when one chooses the type of encoding for an attachment
> when send a file from the MacOS platform the common choices are:
> --BinHex,
> --Base 64,
> --UUEncode,
> --AppleSingle, and
> --AppleDouble,

        Depends on the EMail software.

        An EMail client that correctly supports the Mac extensions to
MIME (RFC's 1740 & 1741) would never do a simple "Base64 encoding" of
a file - they'd always do either AppleSingle or AppleDouble w/Base64
encoding.

> and when one selects Base 64 only the data fork is encoded and sent,

        If that's what your EMail software does...But as I point out,
it would be a "bad thing" and not in support of the above quoted
RFC's.

Leonard
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