MimeWriter and Excel file

[Jon K Hellan]

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