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From: jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
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Subject: Re: MAC MS-MAIL to SMTP gateway?
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Date: 6 Oct 90 02:14:09 GMT
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In article <1990Oct5.211803.11653@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> 
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
> I've had people tell me that the GatorMail product uses ***uuencode***.
> I have a hard time believing such, uh, misguided behavior, but I've had
> two requests to teach Eudora how to uudecode, so it's true of SOMEBODY's
> product.

Yes, GatorMail-Q = Mail*Link sends out QuickMail enclosures in uuencoded 
AppleSingle format, and it is indeed misguided.  If the recipient also 
happens to be using a QuickMail/Mail*Link system, it works wonderfully, 
but otherwise the recipient for all practical purposes receives mush.  
This brain-dead behavour is one of the many reasons I prefer Eudora over 
QuickMail/Mail*Link (although QM/M*L is still better than logging on to 
any timesharing system, UNIX or otherwise, to deal with your mail).

When Mail*Link was a new product, I beat StarNine over the head to at 
least leave BinHex'd file enclosures alone.  That is, simply append them 
to the end of the outgoing message as is, and not feed them through the 
AppleSingle/uuencode conversion.  This at least makes it possible to send 
a file to somebody on the Internet - you BinHex it first, then attach the 
BinHex'd file to your message as a QuickMail enclosure.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu