I asked this question some time ago, but the answers all addressed
gnus, not emacs' rmail utility. So let me try again: Is it possible to
attach a binary to an rmail message under emacs?

According to my GNU emacs book, emacs does not support binary file
attachments, although one can insert an ASCII file.

But it's not difficult to MIME a binary file, and then insert it into
an rmail message. So my question is, will Windows mail readers
understand what I did and know how to un-MIME and display the binary? 

I'm ignorant of such things, but it seems that a simple macro could
mime a file and insert it, and perhaps also insert whatever garbage
necessary to convince the Windows mail reader that a MIME file is
attached. But if it were really so easy, someone would surely have
done it. Can anyone comment on the possiblities here?

Haines Brown
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