From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 14:13:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 870AF1524E for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:12:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id RAA14480; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:21:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903052221.RAA14480@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: email attachment In-Reply-To: <19990305140006.B2341@globalcenter.net> from Steve Carter at "Mar 5, 99 02:00:06 pm" To: scarter@globalcenter.net (Steve Carter) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:21:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: dchen@vadem.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Carter wrote, > Yes. Sendmail and most of the email clients support attached files. I > personally recommend 'mutt' (www.mutt.org) as an email client. > > -Steve > > Dell Chen wrote: > > Hi, > > Does FreeBSD's email implementation handle email attachment? Thanks. sendmail does not really know anything about attachments (when it comes to relaying). The mail user agent (MUA, what Steve called a 'client') deals with attachments. There are any number of MUA's that can deal with attachments, elm, pine, mutt, etc. I hate to even say it, but some people actually use the mail services within Netscape. None of these comes with a standard install of FreeBSD, but all are in the ports collection for FreeBSD. The reason for this is FreeBSD would rather let the user choose his prefered MUA than force one on him, and not fill up the distribution with a bunch of MUAs and the user only uses one. I personally use elm and am often asked by my Winblows using cow-orkers to fetch attachments that their GUI, M$-based MUA's screw up. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message