Re: [hylafax-users] Mailing received TIF's from faxrcv script (MIIME question)

["Altamiro M. Diniz" <diniz@darumaorga.com.br>]

Hi All,

an alternative solution is given by mmencode:

man mmencode (extract):
RATIONALE
       Mimencode is intended to be a replacement for uuencode for
       mail and  news  use.   The  reason  is  simple:   uuencode
       doesn't  work  very  well in a number of circumstances and
       ways.  In particular, uuencode uses characters that  don't
       translate  well  across  all  mail  gateways (particularly
       ASCII <-> EBCDIC gateways).  Also, uuencode is  not  stan­
       dard -- there are several variants floating around, encod­
       ing and decoding  things  in  different  and  incompatible
       ways,  with  no "standard" on which to base an implementa­
       tion.  Finally, uuencode does not generally work well in a
       pipe,  although some variants have been modified to do so.
       Mimencode implements the encodings which were defined  for
       MIME  as uuencode replacements, and should be considerably
       more robust for email use.

the same code with mmencode:

         echo ""
         echo "--$MIMEBOUNDARY"
         echo "Content-Type: image/tiff; name=$FILE"
         echo "Content-Description: FAX document"
         echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"
         echo ""
         /usr/bin/mmencode $FILE 2>/dev/null
         echo ""
         echo "--$MIMEBOUNDARY--"

I'm using that and works fine.

Best regards,


Giulio Orsero wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:21:04 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> >The final Mime line is:
> >"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit"
> ...
> UUENCODE=/usr/bin/uuencode
> ...
> ...
> ...
> 
>         echo "--$MIMEBOUNDARY"
>         echo "Content-Type: image/tiff; name=$FILE"
>         echo "Content-Description: FAX document from $SENDER"
>         echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"
>         echo ""
>         $UUENCODE -m $FILE $FILE|$GREP -E -v "^begin|^====$" 2>/dev/null
>         echo ""
>         echo "--$MIMEBOUNDARY"
> --
> giulioo@pobox.com
> 
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