[WinMac] Re: Cross-platform email

Lesley Vita(lesley.vita[at]darwin.ntu.edu.au)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:30:54 +0930

On Thu, 17 Dec 98 17:30:18 +1000, Ken Williams 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. 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."

The solution is very simple: use Eudora on your Mac. I work in a university
that has PCs, Macs, Unix boxes and even the odd Dec box. I also have email
corresponents all over the place and we indulge in a fair amount of
promiscuous swapping of files. With Eudora, I don't even know what platform
is at the other end; the process is seamless.

There have been only two problems: the Pegasus emailer has trouble decoding
attachments unless its decoder is set to MIME; attachments created by
recent versions of software (eg Word 98) can't be read transparntly by
users with older versions of the same software (eg Word 5). In fact the
latter problem has occurred more often than anything else.

Regards,

Lesley Vita

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