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- From: "Bob Johns, (604)363-6520" <bob@ccs.ios.bc.ca>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: RE: Is there a point to MINE with VMS Mail
- Message-ID: <0095F3BC.62C88F40.11986@ccs.ios.bc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:49:56 PDT
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- My users would certainly like a standardized method of exchaning binary
- files with other users. Hopefully, with time, more and more systems will
- support X.400, thereby adhering to a formal specification for binary
- attachments.
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- Since most of my users access Email from their PC's, they naturally want
- to be able to exchange word processing documents, spreadsheets, and .exe's.
- VMSmail's "send/foreign" just isn't good enough, partly because it is not
- supported by Digital (undocumented) and partly because it isn't even
- compatible with their own Pathworks mail binary attachment capability!
-
- So maybe MIME is the way to go. I have picked up the relevant RFC's, so
- will have a closer look to understand this issue better.
-
- As far as PMDF is concerned, it does claim to support MIME. I was curious
- to find out more about it, so contacted them for info. What I have they
- sent by FAX, but they also have an Email address ("sales@innosoft.com")
- in case those asking about it wanted more direct feedback.
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- | Bob Johns | |
- | Manager, Central Systems & Networks | Internet: bob@ios.bc.ca |
- | Scientific Computing | |
- | Institute of Ocean Sciences | Tel : (604)363-6520 |
- | 9860 West Saanich Rd., Sidney, B.C. | FAX : (604)363-6390 |
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