Tickets :: Comment on [#6141] application/mac binhex40 attachments don't show

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Comment	>> I can send an email natively from a mac client with an encoded > >> attachment to one of you if you wish - to see if the attachments show > >> up for you.. > > > > It sounds like we are talking about 2 different issues here. You > seem to be complaining that the attachment (named > 'HB_190_chart_v3.doc') is not appearing as an attachment at all. > However, as mentioned by Jan and confirmed by me, this report is > bogus - the attachment shows up fine. > > > > The issue is instead when a user tries to download the file. Since > it is encoded in binhex40, a user on any non-Mac (Windows, for > example) that tries to download the file (using a browser other than > FF 2) will simply download the text of the encoded file. This is not > desirable since most OS's do not contain a binhex decode utility. > What needs to be done is to provide a link for these users (doing > browser/OS sniffing) that allows the user to download the data > contained in the encoded data. Since it appears there is no PHP > code/library that does decoding of binhex data, this will need to be > done via an external program (such as UUDeview).
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