>....which, again, is why I think it's probably easiest to just get people >in the habit of stuffing / zipping / etc files before upload or download.
Um...not very perl oriented solution here, but how about using an email program like Eudora that sends type/creator codes? Eudora will take care of the binhexing for you. Just set up Expander on the other end to keep an eye on the the attachments folder, and unstuff to another folder, etc... I have no idea of the file sizes of these files, but if you are in control of the mail server(s) then you can tweak it so that larger files are not rejected back to the sender.
