[Users] [Bug 4217] Claws Mail 3.17.3 changes content of an attachment on sending message

[Johan Vromans]

On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:16:45 +0000, noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:

> https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4217
> 
> --- Comment #6 from Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> ---
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Sorry. Which lines? I **attached** a file not insert. How a attachment
> > could be changed at all?  
> 
> Attachments are encoded. They are also wrapped so they do not exceed the
> maximum allowed line length (998 bytes) This is a standard specified in
> RFC 2822. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822

One may expect that upon receipt the attachment is unwrapped and decoded,
producing a bit-for-bit identical copy of the original file.