Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: binmail vs MMDF mail file format
Message-ID: <12184@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 89 19:29:44 GMT
References: <113918@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <8887@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <8887@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>AT&T's PMX mailer products include a new /bin/mail that uses
>Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers to avoid the problem.  Anything
...
>Any chance of seeing this (or Forms mode) in Mush?

er..  gads!  While that sounds like a possibly nice feature, it's
*EXTREMELY* un-RFC-822-ish.  Mush has to live out here in the world
of RFC-822 where mailing binary files around breaks things all
over the place.
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