Subject: RE: Pine for unix

From: "Everett, Marty" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 14:18:19 -0500

The problem is I want my file as a attachment not text in the mail
message. Has anyone ever worked with the MI set of libraries? It seems
that I might be able to write some simple program to do what I want.  

Thanks Marty Everett

PS - No mass mailing on the net for me. This is for an internal
(company) project.

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	From:  Robin S. Socha[SMTP:[email-masked]]
	Sent:  Tuesday, December 23, 1997 1:30 PM
	To:  Everett, Marty
	Cc:  Pine Discussion Forum
	Subject:  Re: Pine for unix

	>> "EM" == Everett, Marty <[email-masked]> writes:

	EM> Is there a way to make pine send mail in batch mode and have
it
	EM> send files as attachments not text in the email? I tried
working
	EM> with keystroke-list but have had no luck.

	You wouldn't happen to be planning some mass mailing, would you?
	Anyway, the answer to your question is no. You can use trusty
old
	mail or e.g. mutt for that. Don't ask for the addressbook
options,
	ok?

	HTH,
	Robin

	-- 
	Robin S. Socha M.A. (*PLONK*ed by Jost Boekemeier)
	Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
	  Masochist: Windows programmer with a smile!

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 23 Dec 1997 21:49:32 +0100

>> Regarding Pine for unix; "Everett, Marty" <[email-masked]> adds:

EM> The problem is I want my file as a attachment not text in the mail
EM> message. Has anyone ever worked with the MI set of libraries? It
EM> seems that I might be able to write some simple program to do what
EM> I want.

Make a list of addresses, name it "list", then read the man page for
mail and do something like:

for i in `cat list`
do uuencode your_file your_file | mail $i
done

This is probably the dumbest thing I've ever written... Why not
simply use Spam98? Anyway, you *could* read the above crap with
Netscape. Anyone get a clean solution to that one? I could not get
mutt to do the batch job...

Robin

                       Vidi, vici, veni