ST ... I realize that we will have to encode the
ST files before we can attach them, two questions, first how do I
ST get sendmail to actually 'attach' the encoded file to the
ST message,
You don't. In general sendmail does not care about what you feed it.
You deal with the issue before you invoke sendmail.
ST and secondly, one is the recommended format to encode
ST the binary file in?
Who's going to be receiving this mail and what mail reader will they
be using? For e-mail I receive, I prefer bzip2 + uuencode piped
into sendmail. In the general case you probably should use mime.
I used metasend etc. to check this out at some point but I'll defer
to more experienced listers on this.
You might consider, though, just sending people a URL and have them
download the binary through http. If you are doing volume, you're
better off avoiding virus checker/MS exchange/mail quota etc. issues
on the receiving side.
cheers,
BM
