[olug] How to MIME encode

Jay Hannah jay at jays.net
Mon Oct 27 19:55:44 UTC 2003


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:
> 
>     tar czf - `cat $FILELIST` | uuencode bccfiles.tar.z | mail -s "BCC
> Files" $ADMIN
> 
> What command would I need to use to MIME encode the data instead of
> uuencode?

http://search.cpan.org/~yves/MIME-Lite-3.01/lib/MIME/Lite.pm

?

HTH,

j




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