Bug 150779

Summary:	This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0
Product:	[Applications] kontact	Reporter:	Albrecht Will <albrecht.will>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.2.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Albrecht Will 2007-10-13 09:09:37 UTC

Version:           1.2.5 (using KDE 3.5.7, Debian Package 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-7 (lenny/sid))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.7-slh-smp-1

I'm using Kmail. When I get an e-mail appendix from a friend with a Mac I cannot open it. The open file begins with the Short Description and looks in the following part like encrypted.
This phenominon starts possibly with my changing from Mepis-Linux to Sidux. ?
If I send the mails forward to another computer with Kubuntu, then the appendix can bo opend normaly.
And I tried to send it to my one computer. If I use IceDove, than the appendix is readable.

Comment 1 Jonathan Marten 2007-10-13 10:55:59 UTC

This isn't a KMail problem.  The attachment is in MacBinary format (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binhex).  You need a converter to be able to read it - which the Kubuntu computer probably has installed already, but your Kmail one doesn't.  There may be a package such as 'uudeview' or 'macutils' available for your distro.

Duplicate of a very old wish...




*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32047 ***

Comment 2 Albrecht Will 2007-10-13 14:41:10 UTC

Jonathan Marten schrieb:
[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
Hi Jonathan,
on other ways I also got some hints to this special problem.
I installed

libconvert-binhex-perl
libconvert-uulib-perl
macutils
uudeview


I restarted the computer, but nothing did help.
My last hope are the people of Sidux.

Cheers, Albrecht