Subject: attachments

From: Brent Blumenstein <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 14:02:37 -800 (PDT)

Is there someone out there who could give me a quick mini course on mail
attachments, and particularly the degree of standardization across
commonly used mail platforms, such as pine cc:mail, Da Vinci mail, pine
(of course), elm, xms, MCIMail, PSI, other commercial mail services,
...

e-mail or a phone call would be accepted.  It would be optimal to have a
quick answer in about an hour or so.  Maybe others are also curious. 

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From: "Jason R. Thorpe" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 17:56:15 -0700 (PDT)

> (of course), elm, xms, MCIMail, PSI, other commercial mail services,

Well, to mail an attachment use the Attchmnt: part of the header...just
put ine filename of the file you wish to attach...you may use the browser
(^T) to select the file also...There is a place to type in a comment
(between the "") at the end of the filename...pine puts them there for you...

To view an attachment, pine will tell you that there is an attachment to
view or save.  Use the 'A' command (when reading you mail) and pine will
prompt you to for which attachment and view or save...If you are using an
x-terminal and have xv (or some other graphics viewer defined in your
.pinerc) pine will automatically display GIF images.

That's it....it's really simple...I can blaze through messages with 3 to 4
meg of attachments in no time...but be careful with attachments...you can
wasily fill up a mail spool with them...it's happened here before...

As for a standard...Pine supports the MIME standard (1.0, I believe).  It
automatically encodes your attachment and sends it off with your message
and decodes attachemts sent to you whenn saved or displayed.  If an
attachment is an ASCII file in one of the standard character sets...to see
a list of those fonts...I think that they are listed in the latest
RFC...you can get it by anonymous ftp at ftp.cac.washington.edu.

> quick answer in about an hour or so.  Maybe others are also curious. 

Well, this wasn't within an hour, but I hope I've been helpful.

Later...

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