[olug] RE: How to MIME encode

[Scott Jones]

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 02:27, 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 don't know what distribution you're running, but check to see if you 
have nail installed (on SuSE, it's part of the mailx package).  nail 
does MIME trasparently.

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