Message-ID: <18623.43310.215051.805170@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: 2008-09-04T09:23:58Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: PDFs on R-devel ...
In-Reply-To: <1A68FCB28DE72F4BA3B967E6506CCE43030496FB@mildnpexmb01.maninvestments.ad.man.com>
>>>>> "OlegS" == Sklyar, Oleg \(London\) <osklyar at maninvestments.com>
>>>>> on Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:47:56 +0100 writes:
[.............]
OlegS> I attached three PDFs ..........
OlegS> Just in case PDFs are removed by the mail server here
OlegS> is the description of the problem:
[..........]
and the PDFs *were* removed ... for a good reason :
Attachments are allowed if they have the correct 'MIME type'
("google" if you don't know what that is).
Your attached files had content type 'application/octet-stream'
which basically means "unknown binary format"
i.e. the same format that any executable virus / trojan /
... would also come in.
You may need a smarter e-mail client (than Microsoft's) which
uses the correct type, or one where you can specify the MIME
type of an attachment explictly.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich,
Maintainer of the @r-project.org mailing lists.