From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 07:21:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA17067 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 07:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA16894 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 07:18:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA21404 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:16:48 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:17:28 +0000 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA25999; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:15:55 GMT Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) id PAA05479; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:14:14 GMT To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD References: <199702130450.UAA01601@lightside.com> From: Paul Richards Date: 13 Feb 1997 15:14:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: jehamby@lightside.com's message of Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:50:59 -0800 Message-ID: <5720akybzv.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) writes: > Absolutely! Although figuring out the lowest common denomintor for, e.g. > rich text, often leads to all sorts of oddities. For example, I just > received a price quote for a Micron PC by E-Mail, in of all things, > UUENCODED RTF format! As I happily uudecoded it, and imported it into > WordPerfect 6.0 for UNIX on my SPARCstation, I couldn't help but wonder All my mail in work that comes from Groupwise accounts i.e. most of it, arrives as uuencoded wp files. I think Groupwise does the uuencoding at some point, possibly at the smtp gateway although it may do it for all mail and transparently uudecodes it upon receipt. I stay away from the internal mechanics of groupwise whenever possible :-) -- Dr Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155