Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 21:07:03 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: alk@pobox.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: base64 Message-ID: <36E3BD67.AA51513F@newsguy.com> References: <14048.10089.598598.919239@avalon.east> <36E07AEC.101F3467@newsguy.com> <14048.48864.918087.631128@avalon.east> <19990306095927.B53145@kudra.com> <14049.29637.311448.247778@avalon.east> <199903080209.TAA28284@mt.sri.com> <14051.24548.250885.992678@avalon.east> <199903080600.XAA28637@mt.sri.com> <14051.26618.409741.264371@avalon.east> <199903080609.XAA28680@mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams wrote: > > > : > : Finally, there is *NO* way to distribute a standard MIME client that > > : > : will not add bloat. > > : > > > : > mpack/munpack. > > : > > : How can they be integrated with bin/mail, which is the standard unix > > : mail reader? > > > > Similarly to uuencode/uudecode: ~|command > > Ahh, but that doesn't work well if you have multiple attachments (been > there, done that). My old email client (not /bin/mail) did not handle > attachments, and I struggled along with the MIME stuff from Bell labs, > and they finally gave up and installed a MIME capable reader. > > However, I rarely have use for them anymore on FreeBSD, since the only > non-text files ever sent around are Word documents (with the appropriate > version of the Word Virus sprinkled in). Since I don't have word, I > have very little use for the attachments. :) We could replace our /bin/mail with the one supplied with metamail. IMHO, that would be bloat. No one who reads mail on a regular basis use /bin/mail. Unless they are reading root's log mail. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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