Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:25:41 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702130825.TAA00414@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199702130450.UAA01601@lightside.com> from Jake Hamby at "Feb 12, 97 08:50:59 pm"
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Jake Hamby wrote: > Another comment on this dangerously off-topic thread: There is now > commercial gateway software designed specifically to look at MIME > attachments and convert them into a format friendly to the recipient. They > even go so far as to add an appropriate resource fork if the recipient is a > Mac user, or add the 3-character extension if the recipient is a PC user. > Wonder what happens if the recipient's using UNIX? :) Try sending a uuencoded _binary_ (for SysV... oops, I mean FreeBSD ;-) to a MS mail user. Last time I did that, msmail uudecoded it automatically and replaced all <LF> chars with <CR><LF> (or something like that). The client complained that the program was core dumping. Duh. I tried to explain that it was Microsoft's attempt at auto-virus generation for UNIX, but the client didn't believe me 8-). > > -- Jake > Regards, -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, 119 Cecil Street, South Melbourne Vic 3205, Australia Tel +61 3 9690 6900 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Mob +61 418 353 137
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