[Macpartners] MIME Types with Eudora and OS X

[Annika Pfluger]

Hi Christopher,

I send a ton of PDF files through Eudora on my mac and I've never had 
any trouble with the following setting: Go to Special --> Settings 
--> Attachments  and choose binhex or uuencode (both should work) for 
encoding and make sure the "always include Macintosh information" box 
is checked.

-Annika


At 9:09 AM -0500 11/8/05, Christopher Naylor wrote:
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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 were 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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>So I turn to you for help.  Any ideas?
>
>C.
>
>Christopher Naylor
>
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