Subject: Re: How to make attachments alwasys uuencode?

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 19:10:56 -0400

On 19 Jun 1997, Joseph Cain wrote:

> We attempting to send some files to a colleague who cannot use ftp and
> can only accept uuencode. Is there some way to assure that the files
> we send are indeed uuencoded? There seems to be some other form (not
> MIME or BinHeX) that it uses and I cannot locate any option in the set
> up that specifies this.

    Why not just uuencode the files "by hand" using an external
uuencode utility and then read them into the body of the messages being
sent?  It may not be the so-called cleanest method, i.e., not fully
automated, but it should work.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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