ot: mail flag for attachment in unix

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:
>   Not sure if AIX has uuencode, but for SCO you would do this:

Uuencode use has been deprecated for at least a decade in favor of MIME
encoding.  I'm pretty sure that the ``mutt -a filename'' automatically
figures out the correct MIME type and encodes as necessary.

This probably isn't a problem if one is attaching simple text files.

Bill
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