From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 19:04:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00480 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 19:04:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00275 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 19:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA28563; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:31:58 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA07818; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:31:57 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980218133157.36739@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:31:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Steve Price , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CCmail attachments References: <34EA45F1.102F11D5@hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34EA45F1.102F11D5@hiwaay.net>; from Steve Price on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 08:22:41PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message