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- From: "Russell O. Redman" <redman@hiaras.hia.nrc.ca>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: RE: Is there a point to MIME with VMS Mail?
- Message-ID: <0095F144.25A61800.2028@hiaras.hia.nrc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:24:11 EDT
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- I have not read the MIME specification, but the ability to send binary data by
- e-mail sounds valuable to me. We often face the problem of distributing binary
- data to our clients. The data is confidential, but does not really require high
- security. Sending it by e-mail would be exactly right, especially since the
- datasets are generally quite small. Giving all these people access to our disks
- through FTP is a lot more work and a lot less secure, both for us and for them.
- I would cheerfully abandon the VMS mail interface if an alternative was
- available which was
- 1) cheap,
- 2) reliable,
- 3) fully MIME compliant,
- 4) loaded with features... ;-).
- Cheers,
- Russell O. Redman
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