NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/mail/misc/4470

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From: [e-mail] (Terry Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Ignorance to MIME's intent
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:16:45 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>I am testing mail packages for future use. I am playing presently with
>Pine for dumb terminals and Zmail for X. Perhaps I am missing something, but
>isn't MIME compliancy supposed to enable me to att/de tach files of certain
>types between dissimilar mailers? It appears attaching a executable binary
>can only be detached in it's original executable form by the same mailer
>that sent it. This appears to make these two mailers appear to be as incompatible as any other non-MIME mailers. Have my expectations of MIME's
>meaning been way overblown or am I missing something?

There's nothing wrong with your expectations... however, because MIME is
a fairly recent effort, it is not impossible that there are bugs in the
implementations.

All proper MIME implementations should be able to send and receive
arbitrary files using base64 encoding.  If you suspect that Pine is
doing this incorrectly, please send details to [e-mail]
so we can get it fixed... (and make sure you are using Pine 3.05 or later.)

--
Terry Gray
 University of Washington
  [e-mail]