[NTLUG:Discuss] OT attachments to email

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:08 -0500, Fred James wrote:
> Question:
>  From a Unix system, I need to send script generated email to a list of 
> addresses with an attachment.  The recipients are a mixed bag - PC and 
> MAC users, and some use Notes as their mail client.  As detailed below, 
> the result for some MAC/Notes user is less than satisfactory when I use 
> 'uuencode'.  Can anyone suggest another route, or some documentation, 
> please?  Or is this just a hopeless case of non-interoperability?

I typically use the "megatron" tools when sending anything to Mac users.
So if the end-client could be a Mac in a distribution, I'd normally send
2 attachments as a result.

The problem here is the usage of Notes and its wish for uuencode.  I
guess what you _might_ (not sure about this) be able to do is in-line
both.  Don't quote me though.

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