Attached DOS text files being converted to Unix text format

[Damián Rodrí­guez Sánchez]

Yes, that makes sense.
Thanks and sorry for my ignorance.


Michael Schwendt escreveu:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:32:59 -0300, Damián wrote:
> 
>> Michael Schwendt escreveu:
>>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:06:50 -0300, Damián wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've already sent this to a Mozilla Thunderbird list but received no 
>>>> answer yet.
>>>>
>>>> All e-mails I receive containing DOS text files are being converted to 
>>>> Unix text files when I save them. Unix text files are not changed. Other 
>>>> file formats are also not affected (zip, exe, doc, etc). I'm not sure if 
>>>> this is a Thunderbird problem. I'm running Thunderbird on FC9. Any help 
>>>> will be appreciated.
>>> Tell a bit more about what encoding is used for the attachments.
>>>
>> I had a look at my Sent file and what I can tell you is that text 
>> attachments show this:
>>
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> What you see is the result of converting the canonical representation
> of the plain text (CRLF line delimiters) into the local representation
> (LF line delimiters). There is no information in the mail message about
> whether the original text files used DOS CRLF. Hence the MUA cannot know
> that you don't want it convert back into the local representation. The
> common work-around is to compress such files, so they become binaries
> which are not altered after decoding.
>