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Does anyone know how to change the MIME mapping for Eudora 6.2.3 on OS
X? The manual describes using ResEdit to edit the resource fork,
but that sounds strangely OS 9-ish; the included illustration in the
manual is of a OS 9 window. My postings in the Eudora forums gets
looks but no replies.<br><br>
Anyway, the reason I ask is this. I have a user who sends lots of
PDF files back and forth with collaborators by email. Recently, his
collaborators began to complain that some of his PDFs, coming through as
email attachments, could not be opened. So the user came to me for
help.<br><br>
First off, Eudora was adding the ".ai" suffix to the file
name. So a file "Paper.PDF" was being decoded at the
recipicient's end as "Paper.PDF.ai". Remove the
".ai", and the file opened just fine. The files
<i>were</i> coming through OK. Oddly enough, this file name change
happened to SOME, not ALL, his PDF files sent. Eudora was sending
them all as AppleDouble (MIME) encoded documents, without the macintosh
information.<br><br>
His OS recognized PDFs as being Adobe Acrobat Reader documents. He
can double-click them, and they open up fine in Acrobat Reader. The
OS displays the proper icon with the files.<br><br>
I examined the file type and creator for the PDFs and found something
interesting. PDFs with the proper file type and creator were the
ones that Eudora added the ".ai" to. PDFs with improper
or missing file type and creator data went just fine. Probably
Eudora just encoded those missing-data files and sent as-is. The
solution seemed to be to find the MIME mappings for Eudora, and make a
change.<br><br>
Easier said than done. I deleted and recreated his settings.
I deleted .plist files from his Library. I did everything but
reinstall the application. Nothing worked.<br><br>
So I turn to you for help. Any ideas?<br><br>
C. <br><br>
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<tt>Christopher Naylor<br><br>
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