PDF Woes

[David Hooton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Friday, 28 May 2004 12:29 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: PDF Woes
> 
> 
> Here is the start of a PDF file before Outlook has got anywhere near it:
> 0000000   %   P   D   F   -   1   .   3  \r   %   â   ã   Ï   Ó  \r  \n
> 0000020   1   3   1   7   4       0       o   b   j  \r
> And when it has been sent to a copy of sendmail (but before sendmail has
> done anything with the data at all)
> %
> 0000660   P   D   F   -   1   .   3   =   0   D   %   =   E   2   =   E
> 0000700   3   =   C   F   =   D   3  \n   1   3   1   7   4       0
> 0000720   o   b   j   =   0   D
> The first \r gets correctly turned into =0D. The \r\n is converted into
> \n.
> So Outlook has already screwed the file by converting it into
> quoted-printable. When these lines are put back together by MailScanner,
> if
> it has had to rebuild the body of the message, it packs them according to
> the quoted-printable spec, which leaves them in a state where Acrobat
> can't
> read them.
> 
> What I will try is have MailScanner rebuild text/pdf and application/pdf
> (and the x- versions) as Base64, to see if that helps. It can't help
> Outlook's corruption, which has already happened, but it may avoid making
> the situation any worse.

Thankyou!


Regards,
 
David Hooton
Senior Partner
Platform Networks
www.platformnetworks.net


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