Thanks a lot for your help. So it must be a problem with email client of my friends.

Good Bye.

Hello, here comes my first post. ;-)

I like Pegasus, but I have same problem for years. When I send a pdf-file as attachment I have to say to Pegasus, that it is Acrobat type. When I do nothing, Pegasus send the file as "unknown"

and nobody can open my pdf. How can I change the options, that Pegasus automaticly see pdf-files as Acrobat?

Thank you for your help, and sorry for my bad english.

Bye.

Matthias

P.S. I use v.4.51 now

[quote user="Forummitglied"]Pegasus send the file as "unknown" and nobody can open my pdf. How can I change the options, that Pegasus automaticly see pdf-files as Acrobat?

[/quote]

Welcome! I don't understand the part of your message that I've underlined. Someone who receives your email with a pdf file attached should, regardless of how Pegasus identifies it or doesn't identify it, be able to save and then open the attachment. Do you know what email client the recipients who can't open the attachment are using?

Cheers!
Steffan

They get not a pdf but "Typ: APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM".

I see, you come from The Netherlands. Do you speak german as well as english? Then I can explain in german.

I do speak a little German but it's fairly rusty and not as good as my English. However, if you're more comfortable writing your posts in German, you are perfectly welcome at the German forum.

Cheers!
Steffan

PS If I could've helped you out, I certainly would have, but I'm not familiar with this problem. I sent myself an email with a pdf attachment and noticed that Pegasus did in fact say 'unknown' file type but I had no problem receiving and opening it.

> I like Pegasus, but I have same problem for years. When I send a
> pdf-file as attachment I have to say to Pegasus, that it is Acrobat
> type. When I do nothing, Pegasus send the file as "unknown"
>
> and nobody can open my pdf. How can I change the options, that Pegasus
> automaticly see pdf-files as Acrobat?
>
> Thank you for your help, and sorry for my bad english.

There is a file called filetype.pm in the program directory when will allow you to set the type of a message based on the file extension or actual string in the header of the message. The automatic type selection will use this file to set the file type.

;
;  Pegasus Mail System,
;  Copyright (c) 1990-97, David Harris, All Rights Reserved.
;
;  File Typing Rules
;
;  This file is used by Pegasus Mail to determine the "attachment type"
;  information for files automatically. It consists of rules that can
;  test a file's extension and any byte or strings in the first 512
;  bytes of the file. Each line contains the complete set of rules for
;  a single type of file, in the following format:
;
;     <file type>,<match type>,<operation>[,<operation>...]
;
;     "file type" is the WinPMail "attachment type" string that
;         should be used if a file matches this rule.
;
;     "match type" is one of the following values:
;         0 : Match is good if any operation succeeds
;         1 : Match is only good if all operations succeed
;
;     "operation" is one or more groups of three parameters in
;     the following format:
;         <opcode>,<offset>,<string>
;             "opcode" is one of the following characters:
;                 X : match the file's extension
;                 B : match the single byte contained in "string"
;                     at offset "offset" in the file
;                 S : match the string contained in "string" starting
;                     at offset "offset" in the file
;                 R : match the string contained in "string" anywhere
;                     in the first 512 bytes of the file
;             "offset" is the offset to start matching in the file. When
;                 "operation" is either X or R, it should be set to 0
;             "string" is the string or byte to match. It can be ASCII
;                 characters, or escapes in the form "\xxx", where "xxx"
;                 is exactly three decimal characters.
;
;   Examples:
;      MS-Word,0,X,0,.DOC
;         - Returns "MS-Word" if the file's extension is ".DOC".
;
;      PGP-Public-Key,0,R,0,BEGIN PGP PUBLIC
;         - Returns "PGP-Public-Key" if the string "BEGIN PGP PUBLIC"
;           appears anywhere in the first 512 bytes of the file.
;
;     PCEXE,1,X,0,.EXE,S,0,MZ
;         - Returns "PCEXE" if the file's extension is ".EXE"
;           AND the first two characters in the file are "MZ".
;
;      ZIP-Archive,0,X,0,.ZIP,S,0,PK\003
;         - Returns "ZIP-Archive" if the file's extension is ".ZIP"
;           OR the first three characters are "PK" and an ASCII 3.
;
;  The matching process ends on the first viable match. Because of this,
;  if you have both a specific set of rules and a general set of rules
;  for any single file type, you should always place the general rules
;  after the specific rules in the file to allow more reliable matching.
;
;  The parser for this file is inflexible - you must get the format
;  right. Note in particular that whitespace is not permitted, or if it
;  is present, it is assumed to be significant. The only valid delimiter
;  in this file is a comma; the only way you can match a comma in a
;  string is by using the escape "\044".
;
;  Blank lines and lines in this file starting with ';' or '#' are
;  regarded as comments and are ignored.
;

[quote user="Forummitglied"]

Hello, here comes my first post. ;-)

I like Pegasus, but I have same problem for years. When I send a pdf-file as attachment I have to say to Pegasus, that it is Acrobat type. When I do nothing, Pegasus send the file as "unknown"

and nobody can open my pdf. How can I change the options, that Pegasus automaticly see pdf-files as Acrobat?

Thank you for your help, and sorry for my bad english.

Bye.

Matthias

P.S. I use v.4.51 now

[/quote]

Actually I don't think the problem is with that setting. Are the files actually saved with a .pdf extension? Are you having the problem with the same people all the time, if so what e-mail client do they use?

The setting "unknown" for filetype and "mailer decides" for encoding and in the lower part of the add attachment window "mailer dicedes" twice,  is perfectly ok to send the messages out and have them recognized by the receiving client.

 Feel free to send a pdf attachment to me (directly) to see if it opens ok.

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]>

There is a file called

filetype.pm in the program directory when will allow you to set the

type of a message based on the file extension or actual string in the

header of the message. The automatic type selection will use this file

to set the file type.


[/quote]

In that file is nothing about Acrobat and pdf-Files. Is that my problem?

I read Martin Schnabel's reply in the German forum and I was wondering exactly the same thing with regard to MIME. Go to Tools, Options, Outgoing Mail - Messages and replies, and make sure that 'Use MIME features' is checked.

Cheers!
Steffan

[quote user="Steffan"]

I read Martin Schnabel's reply in the German forum and I was wondering exactly the same thing with regard to MIME. Go to Tools, Options, Outgoing Mail - Messages and replies, and make sure that 'Use MIME features' is checked.

Cheers!
Steffan

[/quote]

It is checked.

Could you send me an email with a pdf file attached?

[quote user="Steffan"]Could you send me an email with a pdf file attached?
[/quote]

Received?

Yep and I can open the attachment without a problem.

[quote user="Steffan"]Yep and I can open the attachment without a problem.
[/quote]

Mysterious.

[quote user="Steffan"]Yep and I can open the attachment without a problem.
[/quote]

Me too... no problems at all. Using all kind of different setup's and 3 different e-mail clients, including a gmail account.