Orginal question:
>
>
> Hello world
>
> I thought that starting with sunos 4.1.3_u1 that sun mailtool and mailer
> could handle MIME type attachments ( mime compatible)
> I am running 4.1.4 with all recommend and security patches. Using V8.6.13 as the
> the sendmail on the mail host. However I still get lots of mail
> that state they have attachments. The attachments are thrown into the
> body of the message and I can't read them.
>
> What is the best way to get my mail to work correctly?
Answer is no. Here are the responses.
Thanks to all
Regards
parks
From: anderson@neon.mitre.org (Mark S. Anderson)
To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov, parks@xdiv.lanl.gov
Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question?
Content-Length: 860
Use pine to read MIME attachments.
From: muthu@enterprise.wipsys.soft.net (G.Muthukumar)
Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question?
To: parks@xdiv.lanl.gov
Please summarize as I also have this type of problems.
TIA,
Muthu
From: nobroin@esoc.esa.de (Niall O Broin - Gray Wizard)
To: parks@xdiv.lanl.gov
Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question?
Content-Length: 311
Sorry - you thought wrong. I believe that mailtool from Solaris 2.5 on
will handle MIME messages, otherwise you'll have to use another mail frontend
e.g. pine or elm.
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
European Space Operations Centre nobroin@esoc.esa.de
Darmstadt, Germany Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
From: bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de (Jochen Bern)
To: parks@xdiv.lanl.gov
Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question?
Reply-To: bern@uni-trier.de
X-Url: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~bern/
X-Mailer: SUN OpenWindows 3.0 Mailtool plus JoesMailtool 1.2alpha
X-Mailer-Source: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-trier.de/pub/sunos/JoesMailtool
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Trier, Germany
X-Body-Checksum-Sum: 8387 2
X-Body-Checksum-Md5: 4eb87df6580985dce31a49a9fb3ea702
Content-Length: 943
> I thought that starting with sunos 4.1.3_u1 that sun mailtool and mailer
> could handle MIME type attachments ( mime compatible)
No Way. :-) 2.5 (OW 3.3) upward maybe.
> What is the best way to get my mail to work correctly?
I have MIME Mails converted to empty Mails with a "Type MIME Mail"
SUN Attachment that I've defined to OW to run metamail on. Works
quite good, though you can't Reply-Included right away. :-} Send
a Mail to mailtool-sig@ti.uni-trier.de for an Autoreply.
Regards,
J. Bern
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Hi parks,
mailtool on 4.1.3_u1 does not include MIME..... I don't know for sure but mailtool on Solaris 2.4 or 2.5 does.
Please summarize, TIA, Rob
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From: tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans) Received: by barkeep (SMI-8.6) id HAA21110; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:34:33 -0500 Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question? To: parks@xdiv.lanl.gov
Dump mailtool, or upgrade to Solaris 2.5, which includes a new mailtool (part of CDE) which is MIME compatible. Or, you can buy the Z-Mail package. If you don't have to have a GUI, try out elm, which is freeware, and can be built with MIME support.
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Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question? To: parks@xdiv.lanl.gov Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:10:17 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 845
I ended up downloading a copy of elm from the internet, and in the Configure script it has an option to handle MIME. you'll also need to get a copy of metamail.
Paul Burke burke@oasis.ot.com (I still have a problem with getting the return address domain working correctly)
From: pettyje@slwt1.maf.nasa.gov (John Petty d-4110 7-1925) To: parks@xdiv.lanl.gov Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 620
Parks,
Does this look familiar?
<---- Begin Attached File ----> begin 644 FILENAME.DOC
(what looks like garbage follows)
If it is, then you are recieving uuencoded attachments. Our mail server (as an example) automatically uuencodes attachments as they go out.
Save as a seperate mail file, but different from the name listed after "begin" (in this case, FILENAME.DOC).
In a shell window do this: #uudecode <mailfile_name>
You will then finally have FILENAME.DOC as a seperate, accessible file. You can now delete the seperate mail file. Yes, it IS a royal pain.
John Petty pettyje@slwt1.maf.nasa.gov
From: "Bert N. Shure" <bert@solsource.com> X-Sender: bert@supernova To: Parks Fields <parks@xdiv.lanl.gov> Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1003
get a mailer that handles MIME. i use Pine.
==bert==
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From: "Matthew D. Lammers" <lammers@netset.com> Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question? To: parks@xdiv.lanl.gov Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:50:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: staff@zeus.netset.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 775
Go and get metamail...'mm2.7.tar.gz' from any large ftp site of your choice. That's how I fixed ours...
Matt.
-- Matthew D. Lammers -- NetSet Internet Services, Columbus, OH http://www.netset.com/~lammers "What to do!?! My SUN won't rise!"
--From: Jay Lessert <jayl@lattice.com> X-Sender: jayl@galileo To: Parks Fields <parks@xdiv.lanl.gov> Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 628
On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Parks Fields wrote: > I thought that starting with sunos 4.1.3_u1 that sun mailtool and mailer > could handle MIME type attachments ( mime compatible)
No. The first mailtail that supports MIME comes with Solaris 2.5.
> What is the best way to get my mail to work correctly?
Both pine and MH handle MIME, but don't handle mailtool-style enclosures (but then, nothing except mailtool does...).
Jay Lessert jayl@lattice.com Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (voice)1.503.681.0118 Hillsboro, OR, USA (fax)1.503.693.0540
>From: lopez@abqato.scs.philips.com (Robert Lopez x7112) To: parks@xdiv.lanl.gov Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question? Reply-To: lopez@scs.philips.com X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 438
I would like to here about it if your understanding is correct.
My (mis?)understanding is that MIME was not available via Mailtool unless the SunLink X.400 8.0.2 product is added.
Robert Lopez ATO Network Manager Philips Semiconductors Phone: (505)822-7112 9201 Pan American Fwy, N.E., ms 20 FAX: (505)822-7237 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113 USA Internet: lopez@scs.philips.com
From: mike@titan.trdlnk.com (Michael Sullivan) To: parks@xdiv.lanl.gov Subject: Re: Suns's mailer question? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 593
Upgrade to Solaris 2.5. Also, if you wish to send MIME attachments you must install CDE and use dtmail instead of mailtool.
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