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Article #589Re: bugs in /bin/mail - not this time
From: Jonathan Clark
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1986 05:36
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1986 05:36
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In article <3000002@cdp> scott@cdp.UUCP writes: >How can you send binaries in mail. You can't. That's why uucp(1) and uuto(1) were invented. Encoding is cheating. You could if /bin/mail supported a logical separation between a letter and its envelope. As I know nothing about X.400 except that it weighs more than I care to read, and very little about other mail delivery systems, let me ask a possibly stupid question: do any other mail subsystems support this separation so that binaries could be mailed? -- Jonathan Clark [NAC,attmail]!mtune!jhc My walk has become rather more silly lately.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtune!jhc From: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Re: bugs in /bin/mail - not this time Message-ID: <755@mtune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 01:36:05 EDT Article-I.D.: mtune.755 Posted: Fri Oct 24 01:36:05 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Oct-86 04:08:52 EDT References: <1185@hoptoad.uucp> <3000002@cdp> Reply-To: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA Lines: 17 Summary: nonsense