From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 01:26:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA29895 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:26:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from werple.net.au (melb.werple.net.au [203.9.190.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA29808 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12277 invoked by uid 5); 13 Feb 1997 09:24:33 -0000 MBOX-Line: From jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au Thu Feb 13 19:25:42 1997 Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA00414; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:25:42 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199702130825.TAA00414@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:25:41 +1100 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199702130450.UAA01601@lightside.com> from Jake Hamby at "Feb 12, 97 08:50:59 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 chars with (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