[vox-tech] OT: line breaking in text/plain mail attachments

[Jeff Newmiller]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Henry House wrote:

> Are MIME attachments of type text/plain supposed to follow a particular
> line-termination standard? (I.e., LF or CR+LF).

On the wire, text/plain is supposed to follow CRLF.

> The reason that I ask is that one of my correspondents, who uses a
> Mac, sends me text/plain attachments that arrive base64 encoded (seems
> like broken behavior) and with Mac-style line termination. Mutt does
> not convert the line termination for me, which I thought it is
> supposed to do.

Sounds doubly broken.  What is the MUA?

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