[SLE] Troubles with emailed PDF attachments -- largely from Macs to Linux

From: Peter N. Spotts (pspotts_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 07/25/05

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    Folks,

    Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but it seemed like a logical place to
    start. I'm using SuSE 9.1, T-bird for email, and the email is arriving
    from my ISP (Comcast) via fetchmail. It seems that often, when I get a
    pdf attachment from someone using a Mac, pdf attachments come through
    corrupted. I try opening them with Acroread (7.0) and Ghostview; neither
    works.

    My email comes goes into Yahoo and Comcast accounts via an alias. I
    thought that one of the servers along the way might be doing the files
    dirt. So I sent a pdf from my own machine to each account directly, then
    via the alias into each account. Attachments sent directly to Yahoo
    account opened just fine. Attachments sent to my Yahoo account via the
    alias opened, though I still got a corrupt-file error from Acroread. But
    no file coming through my second (and "default") email address at
    Comcast could be opened, even after downloading and trying to open (or
    print) from the downloaded file.

    Before I harumph at Comcast, I wanted to be sure the fault doesn't lie
    with me in some way. For *doc attachments from Macs, I recall reading
    somewhere that the file needed some sort of decoding before OpenOffice
    for Linux would read it. Would the same hold true for pdfs?

    Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this...

    With best regards,

    Pete 

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