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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.

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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	"FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker."




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