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Started by Kyle Tucker
Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:26
Ignorance to MIME's intent
Author: Kyle Tucker
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:26
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:26
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Firstly, I have not read the RFC (I intend to), I just need a quick yes/no. I am testing mail packages for future use. I am playing presently with Pine for dumb terminals and Zmail for X. Perhaps I am missing something, but isn't MIME compliancy supposed to enable me to att/de tach files of certain types between dissimilar mailers? It appears attaching a executable binary can only be detached in it's original executable form by the same mailer that sent it. This appears to make these two mailers appear to be as incompatible as any other non-MIME mailers. Have my expectations of MIME's meaning been way overblown or am I missing something? - Thanks, Kyle - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kyle Tucker - Email Administrator | Progress Software Corporation tucker@bedford.progress.com | 14 Oak Park (617)280-4565 | Bedford, Mass. 01730 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Re: Ignorance to MIME's intent
Author: Terry Gray
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:16
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:16
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In article <1993Jan22.202655.20532@progress.com> tucker@bedford.progress.COM writes: > >I am testing mail packages for future use. I am playing presently with >Pine for dumb terminals and Zmail for X. Perhaps I am missing something, but >isn't MIME compliancy supposed to enable me to att/de tach files of certain >types between dissimilar mailers? It appears attaching a executable binary >can only be detached in it's original executable form by the same mailer >that sent it. This appears to make these two mailers appear to be as incompatible as any other non-MIME mailers. Have my expectations of MIME's >meaning been way overblown or am I missing something? There's nothing wrong with your expectations... however, because MIME is a fairly recent effort, it is not impossible that there are bugs in the implementations. All proper MIME implementations should be able to send and receive arbitrary files using base64 encoding. If you suspect that Pine is doing this incorrectly, please send details to pine-bugs@cac.washington.edu so we can get it fixed... (and make sure you are using Pine 3.05 or later.) -- Terry Gray University of Washington gray@cac.washington.edu
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