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From: schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch)
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Subject: Re: MAC MS-MAIL to SMTP gateway?
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Date: 5 Oct 90 07:24:57 GMT
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We dealt with StarNine when they were getting started.  We got them to
include support for binary enclosures over SMTP.  I wonder if the current
produce has such support?  When we last talked to them there were a few
bugs.

Since there was no support for including enclosures in SMTP messages, we
created one.  In the header of the message was this header:

X-Lines: 10

which told how many lines of text there were in the beginning of the message.
After that number of lines, we has lines such as this:

**|BINHEX|filename|**
(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)

:!fC[E`"%394"2j!%!*!%!Vi!N!4%qR0PG#"ZEfGXEf)JE@&TE$d[GA0b,h0`EfpX
...etc...
@&c)%003b"MBA3JILpcFQ-[E@pZ,f0YBbjTF#pME@-ZFh*PBbF+[ki!!!!!:
**end**

Our MacPOP program handles such enclosures in a way that is easy for the
user.

Is there a standard for doing such things now?  Does GatorMail support it?

	Steve