Subject: un-mimed smaller: strange?

From: "R. Russell Neuswanger" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 12:57:47 -0400 (EDT)

Since I have yet to find a way to read mime-encoded material 
outside pine (and my correspondents' lack of such sophistication likely 
exceeds even mine), I tried sending the same file two ways to one of my 
other mailers: once by naming it on the attachment line, and once by 
using the read-file command in the body of the message.
	Sure enough, the first got mime-encoded and the other didn't. 
	What seems very odd is that the message with the encoded file was 
34K, while the one with it in clear was only 24K. Now, if mime is among 
other things a replacement for uuencode, and uuencode functions among 
other things to *compress* a message ...

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From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 13:31:01 -0400 (EDT)

> other things to *compress* a message ...
I don't think it is accurate to say that uuencode compresses the 
message.  The encoding process, pine or otherwise, splits 8-bit bites 
into 4-bit chunks and concatentates with 000s to make a 7-bit bites.  The 
decoder recombines the right 4 bits into 8-bit bites at the other end.  
Though there may be some optimization, the primary function is to push 
8-bit bytes through a 7-bit wire.  For that reason, the file size grows.

Let me know if you need the dos or unix standalone versions of 
mpack/munpack, and I will e-mail them.  (Be sure to let me know if you 
want them as a MIMEd Pine attachment or uuencoded.)

Regards,
Don Sugarman
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From: [email-masked] (Larry Miller [DT])
Date: 24 May 1995 12:19:37 -0600

> other things to *compress* a message ...

uuencode compresses messages?  I haven't seen that.  You sure?

Saludos--

Larry Miller
Administrador de Redes / Network Administrator
Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, La Paz, BCS Mexico 
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From: [email-masked] (Scott Lawrence)
Date: 26 May 1995 10:08:49 -0400

I'm a new user of Pine (only started using it this month), and would like 
to know if Pine has any utilities for redirecting mail to specific 
folders based on their subject or their sender.
If Pine lacks such utilities, are there others that can do the same 
thing?  If the only thing that will do the job is the utility "filter", 
examples of rules files would be greatly appreciated.

Scott