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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:31:57 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CCmail attachments
Message-ID:  <19980218133157.36739@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <34EA45F1.102F11D5@hiwaay.net>; from Steve Price on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 08:22:41PM -0600
References:  <34EA45F1.102F11D5@hiwaay.net>

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On Tue, 17 February 1998 at 20:22:41 -0600, Steve Price wrote:
> How does one deal with CCmail attachments?  I have a system
> running sendmail and fetchmail over a PPP connection.  The
> problem that I have is that this one person keeps sending
> me stuff using CCmail and the attachments get appended to the
> end of the message and are a pain (especially if they are
> binary) to extract and save in a file.
>
> Does anybody have a secret formula for dealing with a situation
> like this?  Besides inflicting some form of torture on the
> person who is doing it.

That's the one I use :-)  

> I checked the mailing list archives and the sendmail FAQ and
> can't seem to turn up anything good.  Any ideas?

Cc:Mail is a real pain.  You should feel sorry for people who have to
use it.  You *could* try to explain that you can't use his binary
attachments.

> PS: Does a question like this belong on the -isp list?

I don't think so.  -questions is fine.

Greg

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