Re: MIME format - What to do?!

[Andrew Duane USG <duane@hunch.zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Phil Payne say:
> In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.990108005426.29258Y-100000@outside.organic.com> c a l i b a n writes:
> > personally, i don't like mime-encoded mails.
> > i read my mail on a unix server and it's kind
> > of a pain to deal with html attatchments and
> > the like...
> It's about seven key derpressions for me.  Today I have something like
> 400 emails to deal with - about 30 serious business ones.  I'm afraid
> that messages with a MIME tag in the inbox frequently get deleted
> unread.  Sad to see that Dave Eaton's messages are now tagged as MIME
> even though there's no MIME content.

I also use Unix, and Mime can be a problem.

My two programs are: metamail (takes a whole mail message and
deals with each part as needed) and mimencode -u, which un-MIMEs
a specific part.

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