Tom Limoncelli writes:
P.S. Is there a mailer that tries to base64, quoted-printable, etc. etc.
looking for the best way to send something or do they still all require
the user to select the encoding?
Dan_Grillo(_at_)next(_dot_)com (Dan Grillo) writes:
NeXT's Mail in NEXTSTEP 3.3 "just works". The user only chooses between
plain mail, NeXTmail and MIME.
Unfortunately, I don't think NeXT have got it right -- I frequently see
mail that's a uuencoded tar of a compressed file /tmp/.long_name that's
in RTF. I don't know (not having a NeXT box) what's going on, but it's
not very portable... perhaps this is NeXTmail sent out by mistake, e.g.
to mailing lists.
Apart from that, having things `just work' is wonderful -- it's the way
computers ought to work, especially for people less interested in the
underlying technology.
lee
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