[olug] RE: How to MIME encode

[Sam Tetherow]

In perl

use MIME::Entity;

$messg=build MIME::Entity From => $from_address,
                           To   => $to_address,
                           Subject => $subject,
                           Data    => $body_text;
attach $messg Path => $attachment_filename,
               Type => $mime_type_of_attachment,
               Encoding => "base64";

open(MAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i") | die "Could not open sendmail: 
$!\n";
$messg->print(\*MAIL);
close(MAIL);


You can call attach multiple times to attach more than one file.
You can also send via some other mechanism, say Net::SMTP, by replacing 
the last 3 lines.


Bob McCoy wrote:
> In this case, the originating box is a Linux box.  I don't know what the
> destination box is.  The original script took a bunch of files, tarred
> it up, uuencoded it, and mailed it to a recipient.  Using a client like
> Outlook, I was able to save the attachment.  However, now I need to mail
> it to another system that strips the attachments off and saves them.
>>From a high level, the script looked like:
> 
> 	tar | uuencode | mail
> 
> Now it needs to look like:
> 
> 	tar | (mime encode) | mail
> 
> I just don't know what goes in the place of (mime encode) on the command
> line.
> 
> I may take a look at the Perl solution Jay recommended since I have the
> option of running Perl on the source machine.  I looked at that solution
> and it seemed pretty elegant.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: omaha.pm.knitter at recursor.net
> [mailto:omaha.pm.knitter at recursor.net] 
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:20 PM
> To: "Jay Hannah - jay at jays.net, Bob McCoy <bob at mccoy.net>"@tconl.com
> Cc: olug at olug.org; omaha-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> Subject: Re: How to MIME encode
> 
> 
> At 01:55 PM 10/27/2003 -0600, Jay Hannah  - jay at jays.net wrote:
> 
>>Quoting Bob McCoy <bob at mccoy.net>:
>>
>>>Does anyone know how to MIME encode a binary file for emailing?  In 
>>>the past I've used uuencoding and that worked fine.  However, I'm now
> 
> 
>>>mailing this file to another service that only seems to understand 
>>>MIME encoding.  Here is the original code snippet:
>>>
> 
> 
> How you do it depends on the platform you're on, and how they retrieve
> it depends on what they're on (I assume Windows on their side.) Elm
> handles mime encoding pretty well and I hear Pine does too. 
> 
> If the file's not too large, you could try just sending as plain ascii
> text with a .txt extension, and let them change the extension back to
> whatever after they've downloaded it. 
> 
> You might try q-print http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/qprint/  or
> m-pack if you're on a Mac. 
> 
> If it was me, I'd upload the file to a web page and send them the URL to
> download it. 
> 
> If all else fails, zip it. 
> 
> -Sidney
> 
> 
> 
> 
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