Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/11/03/18:11:06
I personally can't use mime very easily, and prefer uuencode. Each
has its drawbacks, and neither should be used in this forum (either
the code is small enough to just paste into your message, or it's too
big to post). When someone attaches a zip file, I have to save the
mail in a file, go to an xterm, move the file back into my mail spool,
fire up a different mailer that supports MIME, read the message, save
the attached zip file, bring up the xterm again, unzip it into a temp
directory, fire up an editor, look at the source, cut and paste it
back into my original mailer, indent it by hand, reply to it, and go
back and clean up the temporary files. I'd rather just read the
source in the original mail and reply to it from there.
For small files, please just paste them right into the mail message so
I can read them right in my mailer. For big files, WWW or FTP is much
better traffic-wise.
Can we keep this topic off the newsgroup now, like I originally asked?
> BTW, which is the most supported format - MIME or UUencode? I've always
> thought UUencode was the best supported, but I'd like to hear confirmation
> of this.
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