[olug] RE: How to MIME encode

[Bob McCoy]

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
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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