MimeWriter and Excel file

[Juan Carlos Coruña]

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El 05/06/00, 22:09:33, Jon K Hellan <hellan at acm.org> escribió sobre el 
tema Re: MimeWriter and Excel file:


> juan Carlos Coruña <jcoruna at umd.es> writes:

> > Hello all,
> > I have the following problem:
> > I send an email with python using the MimeWriter module and an excel
> > file attached. When I send the to myself inside our intranet the
> > attchmente arrives well, but if I send the email to anyone outside our
> > intranet and open the attachment with MS Excel I see the base64
> > encoded characters. Any ideas.

> I would be very surprised if this turned out to be a Python
> problem. The MIME apparently doesn't arrive intact at the recipient.

> As to why, I can only guess. It could be an anti-virus measure at the
> receiving site.

> Regards

> Jon Kåre

It must be a Python problem, because sending it with the mutt program 
it arrives correctly.