Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!a101!swilliam From: swilliam@a101.even.ge.com (U-E99999-Stephen Williams) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Multiple Binary Attachments And RFC-822 Mail Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 91 22:03:29 GMT References: <40567@cup.portal.com> <575@cronos.metaphor.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Lines: 43 Originator: news@hpt01.even.ge.com philf@xymox.metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez) writes: >In article <40567@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes: >>Have there been any attempts to define a standard for the transmission >>of multiple binary files inside of an RFC-822 envelope? Is there >>anything about RFC-822 that makes this impossible? It seems to me that >>this capability is going to become very important to companies who >>want to make use of cheap TCP/IP internets and SMTP as the backbone >>for their email networks. >At Metaphor we have done a fair amount of thought-work on this issue, >and have built an effective working prototype for the transmission of >multiple binary attachments in an RFC-822 message transmitted via >SMTP. >I'd be very interested in discussing approaches and possible >standardization with others. We have been looking at Poste as a standard email package. It has a nice Motif User Interface and supports many standards, including X.400 and SMTP/sendmail. It has a configurable enclosures capability and can send messages with enclosures to sendmail addresses. It just encodes the pieces in uuencode if neccessary and adds a line like: Encoding: 24 text, 16 uuencode gif, 3000 uuencode bitmap denoting the pieces. Looks great to me! The absence of an X- prefix would indicate that they expect this to be standard or that they don't know any better. Does anyone know if this feature has reached RFC status yet? sdw -- -- Stephen D. Williams SDW Systems (513) 439-5428 GE AEG (513) 552-5237 ICBM: 39 34N 85 15W Internet: swilliam@a101.even.ge.com sdwsys!sdw@valhalla.cs.wright.edu