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From: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu (Mark P. McCahill)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MAC MS-MAIL to SMTP gateway?
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Date: 7 Oct 90 20:21:39 GMT
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In article <1990Oct5.211803.11653@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> 
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
> In article <1990Oct5.072457.17013@news.arc.nasa.gov> 
schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch) writes:
>> 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?
> 
> [...deleted text...]
> Eudora encodes things with BinHex.  When receiving messages, it looks for
> the standard BinHex line ["(This file must be ...)"], and then "handles
> such enclosures in a way that is easy for the user".
> 
> This minimalist approach (no headers or other funny stuff) allows easy
> mailing of binhex from other platforms  (can you say:
> 'ftp> get foo.hqx "|mail s-dorner@uiuc.edu"'?  I thought you could.).
> 
> I dunno about any standards; wanna make some?  

I think there already is a de-facto standard. 
Everybody is already using binhex. 

The POPmail software we developed here at Minnesota also uses the 
minimalist approach of appending the usual binhex line to the end of the 
message followed by the binhex'ed file. It's simple, it works, and it 
doesn't require sender or recipient to use POPmail (or Eudora or MacPOP), 
you just have to be able to decode binhex-format information. 


Mark McCahill

Microcomputer & Workstation Networks Center / University of Minnesota
mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu