Outlook can not recognize PDF v1.7 attachments - those become corrupted after receiving on linux client

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Published on 2012-10-26T16:23:38Z Indexed on 2012/10/26 17:06 UTC
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MS Outlook cannot recognize PDF format 1.7 when sending it as an attachment. Therefore it's sent as:

Content-Type: application/pdf;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

When receiving such an e-mail under Linux (Thunderbird), the PDF content is being parsed as a plain text and converted. This results in a corrupted file loosing all the bytes 0x0a (LF) which are being removed by the EOL conversion.

It's definitely a problem of Outlook which is IMO hard to fix and deploy. Is there a way to fix that on Thunderbird's site?

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