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Command-Line Email (O'Reilly)
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 (subscriber, #5849) [Link] The author forgot a great tool in his article :mpack/munpack which can be downloaded from :
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
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