Topic: pdf file garbage

[tom childs]

hello out there in e-smith land,

 having trouble with my outgoing email, and did not know if it is an e-smith problem. when I send a pdf file to an outlook client on my internal network, and when I send it outside, it comes out as a bunch of characters that reads like this : Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="April E-mail Club.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="April E-mail Club.pdf"

JVBERi0xLjMNMSAwIG9iag08PA0vVHlwZSAvQ2F0YWxvZw0vUGFnZXMgMiAwIFIgPj4NZW5kb2Jq

dont know if it is the box or not.
thanks,
tom

[Franck]

This is how attachments are sent using e-mail : SMTP protocol is not able to send binary data, only text. When you want to send a 'binary' file (and .PDF are binary files), your e-mail client transforms it in text format using MIME encoding : This is the "bunch of characters" you're talking about.

Outlook should be able to decode automatically attachments sent like this. If it not working, you should check your e-mail client or your client's e-mail client. I do not think that the mail transfert agent on the SME server is involved in the problem.