Subject: Can pine send custom MIME types?

From: Seb Wills <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:30:22 +0000 (GMT)

Is there any way to create custom MIME types for pine to use, with extra
parameters?

I'm trying to use pine to send faxes via TPC.INT using the MIME type for
extra cover sheet information:

BEGIN extract from http://www.tpc.int/faq/tpcfaq.html#Cover :

A MIME content-type has been defined for this. It's called
application/remote-printing. Here's an example: 

    Content-Type: application/remote-printing        Recipient:
Darren Nickerson        Organization:   University of Oxford
Department:     New Chemistry Lab        Telephone:      +44 1865 275975
Facsimile:      +44 1865 271503        Email:
[email-masked]            Originator:     Mr.
Arlington Hewes        Organization:   The Phone Company - International
Department:     Administration        Telephone:      +44 1234 123456
Facsimile:      +44 1234 123457        Email:
[email-masked]        Any text appearing here would go on the
cover-sheet.

[That lot is all on one line in the original]

To use this mechanism, the top-level content in your message must be
multipart/mixed, and the very first content in that must be
application/remote-printing.

END extract

Any way to do this?

Thanks, 
Seb Wills

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:44:56 -0600 (CST)

>From: Seb Wills <[email-masked]>
>Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:30:22 +0000 (GMT)

>extra cover sheet information:

http://www.tpc.int/ (This is a pointer to mirror sites around the world. Choose
the mirror closest to you.)

You misunderstood the purpose of the MIME types recognized by tpc.int.
application/remote-printer is strictly for information on the cover sheet
(basically, to whom the fax should be delivered), not for the contents of the
fax itself.

Full details are on the tpc.int site. There's actually a mailing list to
discuss tpc.int. tpc.int is an international experimental e-mail-to-fax
gateway. The locations to which faxes may be sent are limited, and there are no
service guarantees. Furthermore, your fax is delivered with a full-page cover
sheet, which briefly describes tpc.int and may contain advertising to help
defray some of the marginal costs. The service is free, and no one makes any
money doing it. It's not appropriate for sending faxes that are time-sensitive.
Sometimes it can take days to get a fax through the queue.

All sites impose strict usage limits, to discourage the service from being used
by those who send unwanted advertisements via fax.

Briefly, there are 2 ways to use the e-mail-to-fax gateway. One way is to
compose a message in one of several graphics formats identified as compatible
with the project. You send these as an attachment, not in the body of the
message.

pine makes attachments easy: You put the cursor in the headers, hit
^j, and name the file to attach. pine takes care of the boundaries.

pine sends all attachments in Base-64 encoding. pine will recognize PostScript,
and that's one of the MIME types that tpc.int recognizes. pine will
automatically use the correct headers, then.

The other way is to send pure ASCII in the body of the message, and not worry
about MIME at all. This is also descriped on the tpc site.

All tools for properly composing fax binaries are on the tpc site. It's quite
complete. It's free.

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:01:54 -0600 (CST)

>From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
>Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:44:56 -0600 (CST)

>(basically, to whom the fax should be delivered), not for the contents of the

Ahem. He didn't misunderstand. I misread his plain English.

I apologize.

The rest of my message was not helpful in addressing his question.

The short answer is, no, pine does not recognize application/remote-printing,
and that to use it, you'd be better off with one of the mailers recommended by
tpc.int, and available there.