Re: [WinMac] Re: Cross-platform email

Shawn Protsman(protsman[at]christianliving.net)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:32:32 -0800

Eudora allows for different options for attachments (AppleDouble,
AppleSingle, BinHex, Uuencode). Sending from a Mac to a PC which one
should be used and why?

At 3:30 PM +0930 12/18/98, thus spake Lesley Vita:
> 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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Shawn

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