[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28-SEP-2007 14:22:01.42
>The Friday 2007-09-28 at 13:28 +0200, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> when I give the command (on Opensuse 10.2)
>> mail -s subj [EMAIL PROTECTED] < ascii.txt
>> the E-mail is send with the file ascii.txt Base64 encoded. How can I switch
>> that off, so that the text file appears as "plain text" in the body of the
>> E-mail?
>
>man mail.
>
> String Options
>...
> encoding
>
> The default MIME encoding to use in outgoing text messages
> and message parts. Valid values are 8bit or
> quoted-printable. The default is 8bit. In case the mail
> transfer system is not ESMTP compliant, quoted-printable
> should be used instead. If there is no need to encode a
> message, 7bit transfer mode is used, without regard to the
> value of this variable. Binary data is always encoded in
> base64 mode.
Good idea, but .... mail probably assumes that the ascii file is binary
data. So it did not help.
Jouk
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