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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca
- Subject: Re: Help: Are there tools/scripts to easily email binary files?
- Message-ID: <92Sep11.141604edt.9225@nexus.yorku.ca>
- Originator: root@nexus.yorku.ca
- Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
- Organization: York University
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:15:49 GMT
- Approved: postmaster@yorku.ca
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- You asked:
- | Are there scripts/tools available to automatically email binary/tar files,
- | that first use compress/uuencode/split before mailing the files, and that
- | then reverse the process for incoming files, stripping the mail headers
- | in the process? We sometimes have to send large binary files (> 1 Mbyte),
- | and so far we've been using DHL courier services.
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- The most elegant ones are mailto (creates MIME multi-media mail) and
- metamail (reads it). MIME includes multi-part multimedia mail, so
- avoids the old split-and-compress-and-uuencode drudgrey.
- Available on an archive server near you (or send me mail and
- say how big a message your neighbours will let me send you per day,
- and I'll mail it).
-
- A word of caution: your upstream neighbours at ub4b.buug.be may want you
- to pay for a monster feed if you start mailing binaries around!
-
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- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
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