Command-Line Email (O'Reilly) [LWN.net]

Robert Bernier discusses some email foundations on O'Reilly. "The mid-1990's was a time of evolution. The ordinary person discovered the Internet and the Internet discovered a new purpose. The first RFCs (Requests For Comments) were coming out, describing a standard for email transmissions of images, sounds, and binaries that would overcome the 7-bit ASCII limitations that had been adopted all those years before. MIME or Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, was a new standard meant to succeed the patchwork of binary-to-ASCII solutions."

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Definitely worth a read

Posted May 29, 2003 10:15 UTC (Thu) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763) [Link]

This article is a useful little overview of mail, tinged with some history and including some great little tips for people who aren't already ultra-gurus. Certainly a great read!

Command-Line Email (O'Reilly)

Posted Jun 1, 2003 13:07 UTC (Sun) by stock (guest, #5849) [Link]

The author forgot a great tool in his article :

mpack/munpack which can be downloaded from :

ftp.andrew.cmu.edu

   
MPACK(1)                                                              MPACK(1)   
   
NAME   
       mpack - pack a file in MIME format   
   
SYNOPSIS   
       mpack  [  -s  subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c con-   
       tent-type ] file address ...   
       mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ]  [  -c  con-   
       tent-type ] -o outputfile file   
       mpack  [  -s  subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c con-   
       tent-type ] -n newsgroups file   
   
DESCRIPTION   
       The mpack program encodes the the named file in one or more  
       MIME  messages.   The  resulting  messages are mailed to one or 
       more  recipients,  written to a named file or set of files, or posted to  
       a set  of  newsgroups.

Robert