From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 16 05:08:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA24181 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 05:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA24176 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 05:08:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmc@WillsCreek.COM) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA10220 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA13071 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:54:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA00374; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:54:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:54:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710161154.HAA00374@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need MIME-capable mailclient that can be run from inside a script In-Reply-To: <56117148@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 14), Peter Olsson said: > > We are having problems with a customer who uses GroupWise as > > receiving mailserver for mails that are automatically generated > > by a webpage on a FreeBSD-server. > > > > International characters are only handled right if the mail is > > MIME-coded. > > > > So we need a mailclient that can create MIME-coded mails and > > can be run from within a cgi-script. > > > > Any ideas? > > mutt (in ports) can send MIME messages and attachments in batch mode, > and should also be able to set the correct MIME charset type. I'm aware of the following MIME-compliant mailers available under FreeBSD. There are, no doubt, more. - Netscape 3.0 - Netscape Communicator - the Emacs VM and GNUS packages - ELM (with the MIME extensions) - pine - mutt ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ We cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.