On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:49:28 +0000,
Howard Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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?
Actually, I think you're right. I just assumed that metamail did
MIME encoding as well as decoding.
> Mpack apparently will encode outgoing mail, but only for some
> MIME types.
If mpack is not suitable, perhaps muencode would be better. It
comes with the rnr offline newsreader.
<URL:http://users.worldgate.com/~rschulz/uucp/>
C:\>muencode.exe
muencode - encode binary files using MIME base64 or uuencode
usage: muencode [options] required
required:
-o output-filename (can be `-' for stdout)
-i input-filename or -f file-with-list-of-filenames
options:
-s subject
-m MIME encoding (base64) (default)
-u uuencode encoding
-h create headers-ready file (automatic with -m)
-k keep full path in resulting filename
-c MIME content-type (default application/octet-stream)
-a automatic MIME content-type based on extension
-v verbose operation
-t add an extra editable text area
-1 filename with -m, make this message the 1st text part
Howard E.
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