Subject: Help please?!

From: Paul Campbell <[email-masked]>
Date: 06 Dec 1997 09:26:00 -0500

I would like to send files to a friend at University of Birmingham, England.
However, my friend is unable to receive the files using Pegasus mail. I have
tried zipping them but this doesn't seem to work either. Can you help in
any way. Sorry to have bothered you if you can't.

Thanks

Regards
Paul Campbell
SIGMA II Process Engineer, Bridgend Engine Plant
25/115  01656 672511  Fax:01656 672201  [email-masked]

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 23:18:44 +0800 (GMT)

> any way. Sorry to have bothered you if you can't.

Hummm....you have not really supplied enough information for us to help.

However, looking at the headers from your message we see:

Received: by mailfw1.ford.com id AA15328
  (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for [email-masked]);
  Sat, 6 Dec 1997 09:32:35 -0500

We also notice that no headers indicate what mail UA you use.  As you
may know...this mailing list is about "pine".

I'm guessing that "maybe" your "InterLock" gateway does not support MIME.

You will need to supply more failure indicators.  Can you describe what
the other end is receiving?

Regards,
Ed

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Edward M. Greshko                  Technical Manager, Electronic Commerce
                                   Control Data Asia/Pacific Region
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 06 Dec 1997 16:01:11 +0100

>> "PC" == Paul Campbell <[email-masked]> writes:

PC> I would like to send files to a friend at University of Birmingham,
PC> England.  However, my friend is unable to receive the files using
PC> Pegasus mail. I have tried zipping them but this doesn't seem to
PC> work either. Can you help in any way.

If you've followed the instructions pine's online help gives, the
problem is with Pegasus, not pine.

On second thought... Is your friend *unable* to receive them, or to read
them? If he doesn't get them at all, they're probably too big. Many MTAs
are set to a maximum filesize (1MB here e.g.). If he doesn't get them at
all, try splitting the file. I don't have a Dos box here, thank God, but
zip /? should give you the instructions. You might also try arj with the
"-v1000" option (which would create a multi-volume archive with 1MB
chunks).

When all else fails, try ftp. In fact, you should have used ftp in the
first place... The UoB should have an anon FTP server.

Cheers,
Robin

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Robin S. Socha M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Vidi, vici, veni