Re: Thunderbird adding attachments in strange ways?

Will Pugh wrote:
> I'm having a problem sending attachements in Thunderbird.  When I send 
> them to folks using other mail clients (most notably Mail on OSX) they 
> often get a whole bunch of garbled characters in the mail message.
> 
> I believe this is because when Tunderbird is sending the message the 
> MIME header looks like:
> 
> --------------070309030902090002090008
> Content-Type: text/richtext; x-mac-type="5738424E"; 
> x-mac-creator="4D535744";
>  name="CascadiaOverview.doc"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: inline;
>  filename="doc.doc"
> 
> I noticed that many other mail programs use a Content-Type that starts 
> with application/ and have the Content-Disposition be "attachment" 
> rather than "inline"
> 
> I am currently using version 1.0.2, but I upgraded from 0.9
> 
> Other folks in my group don't seem to have this problem.  Does anyone 
> have any ideas of what's going on?  Is there some strange option I have 
> turned on that is doing this?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     --Will

Dont send in HTML would be the first suggestion

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