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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#29164: cannot save attachments
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-07-18 10:51:06
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On Tuesday 17 July 2001 15:25, Milos Prudek wrote:
> Many attachments types cannot be saved with point-and-click.

What attachments? Does it depend on the mime type or does it depend on 
the encoding? You mention uuencode, this is an obsolete encoding and 
shouldn't be used anymore. Use MIME instead resp. tell your peer to use 
it.

> A .xls attachment looks like plaintext beggining with "begin 666
> table.xls" and ending with "end". Such plaintext can be saved, and
> uudecoded on command line, but that is something that my girlfriend
> refuses to put up with :-)

In short: is this a "call for uuencode" support"?

Marc

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