Re: Inserting MIME headers

[Thomas Mueller]

>With regard to the suggestion that metamail or mpack can be used as 
>external programs to insert MIME headers in a mail message. It appears to
>me that metamail will only help read incoming mail sent to me from
>someone else. Am I missing something? Mpack apparently will encode
>outgoing mail, but only for some MIME types.

If you want base64 encoding, you can call it simply something like
"application/octet-stream".  Why should the specific MIME type matter?