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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:54:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need MIME-capable mailclient that can be run from inside a script
Message-ID:  <199710161154.HAA00374@current.willscreek.com>
In-Reply-To: <56117148@toto.iv>

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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

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Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/
We cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.



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