Content-Type: text/plain

J

John Smith

Can anyone help me out with this;

I'm sending text files as attatchments via hotmail and recieving with
outlook express and for some reason carriage returns seem to be added to the
text (word wrap), which i dont want. If i send and recieve using a normal
pop3 server no carriage returns are added.

I believe that the content-type header is the problem

via hotmail and outlook
Content-Type: text/plain; name="RRSSNDS.avo"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="RRSSNDS.avo"

via pop3
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="RRSSNDS.avo"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="RRSSNDS.avo"

for some reason the outlook/hotmail combination is attempting to be clever
by decideing the file type (is text, even though the extension is *.avo)
rather than doing a verbatim binary transfer.

Anyone know a cure?
 

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