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schroederms · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:18 am Post subject: MailNode Base64 Content encoding

Trying to understand this text below out of the help on the mail node. I'm setting Destination.Email.Attachment.Content to base64 encoded data. I'm setting the Destination.Email.Attachment.ContentEncoding = 'base64', the data being mailed out, still looks like it is still encoded. Is the mail node suppose to be able to decode the attachment when identified as base64, or is it designed just to mail out the attachment in base64 as it was received. I'm getting it to work be running on version 7 and decoding by the new functions myself, but I'm curious if the mailnode is designed to do this internally. Thanks in advance. -Mike

Destination.Email.Attachment.ContentEncoding The encoding of the attachment: 7bit, base64, or quoted-printable.
7bit is the default value that is used for ASCII text.
Base64 is used for non ASCII, whether non English or binary data. This format can be difficult to read.
Quoted-printable is an alternative to Base64, and is appropriate when the majority of the data is ASCII with some non-ASCII parts. This format is more readable; it provides a more compact encoding because the ASCII parts are not encoded.