Re: [WinMac] Cross-platform email

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:54:00 -0500

At 5:30 PM +1000 12/17/98, Ken wrote:
> My problem is this - I can send/receive email from either platform, using
> Claris Emailer on the Mac and Eudora on the PC. However if I receive
> attachments from a PC user on my Mac, the attachments are often
> MIME-encoded, and Claris Emailer won't have a bar of them.

        Correct. EMailer is unfortunately a bit outdated in it's
support of MIME and won't deal with many MIME features.

> If I send a
> file from the Mac to a Windows user, by default Claris Emailer insists on
> BinHexing them, unless I tell it to uuencode or Base64 encode - any of
> these can give problems at the other end.

        I don't know what EMailer does when you choose Base64, but IN
THEORY that should properly MIME encode the data and (assumng your
recipient has a MIME savvy mailer) you'll be fine.

> I downloaded a freeware package
> called MPack 1.5 which is supposed to be able to decode MIMEd files, but
> for some reason it won't! (Yep, I'm probably doing something wrong, I
> know).

        StuffIt Expander for both Mac and Windows will happily un-MIME files.

> If I run email from the PC, I get the converse problems.

        You also have issues with receiving files with resource forks
and losing them - that's why I don't do my EMail on a PC.

> Anyone else have this problem? Any useful suggestions? I should explain
> that I'm located out in the sticks, without anyone respectable to discuss
> this with. Hence my hopes that (a) it's appropriate for this list and (b)
> that someone can put me straight.
>
        Best solution - switch to Eudora on the Mac! Regardless of
anything else, it's the most standard's compliant of any of the EMail
packages and will both send & receive mail correctly.

Leonard
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