Re: UUENCODED attachmets

[Darlock <darlock@teleline.es>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:

      Hi,
      
      some email programs sends email in an uuencoded fashion, something like 
      this:
      
       begin 600 noticiam1.htm
       M/&AT;6P^#0H-"CQH96%D/@T*/&UE=&$@;F%M93TB1T5.15)!5$]2(B!C;VYT
       M96YT/2)-:6-R;W-O9G0@1G)O;G1086=E(#,N,"(^#0H\=&ET;&4^/"]T:71L
      .
      .
       M/2)I;6%G97,O=F]L=F5R+F=I9B(@8F]R9&5R/2(P(B!724142#TB-C(B($A%
       M24=(5#TB,3`B/CPO83X\+V9O;G0^/"]P/@T*/"]B;V1Y/@T*/"]H=&UL/@T*
       `
       end
      ----------------------------------------------------------
      1. Is that a standar way of including attachments?

No, before existing the MIME standard, the way to include attachments was
to transform the 8bit data format to a 7bit US-ASCII text using the
UUENCODE/UUDECODE tools. The usual way to include attachments is using the
MIME standard.
      
      2. Is there a tool or library to convert this type of attachment to
      MIME compliant ?
      
The best way you can follow is to uuencode the attachment and then to
include it into an e-mail using any e-mail reader, cos' actually all the
readers supports MIME.
To uuencode the attachment save the mail into a file and execute:

$ uuencode <mail_file>

That creates a file called in your example noticiam1.htm, then you only
have to include it into any mail.
      
      Thanks.
      
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