ot: mail flag for attachment in unix

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:10:34PM -0400,
J. P. Radley blabbed on about:
> Dennis Malen propounded (on Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:11:16PM -0400):
> | I would then have to go to a product like LM.
> 
> Why not get mutt, which knows in its bones how to create and handle
> attachments?

He's on AIX, with no compiler.  Luck on that.  :)

Actually, if I check the right site, it's supposedly included here:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/download.html

But mutt still requires a local MTA due to the team's design philosophy,
which program, if memory serves, was not present at all--I believe they
used a remote SMTP server.

Since he already has LightMail, he can just use that without bothering with
any of this.  And it doesn't suffer the downfalls of needing configuration
files, etc.  I use mutt every day, but as a back-end MSA, it's got some
downfalls for automation, especially when forging from multiple addresses,
last time I looked.

Not a sales pitch--he already licensed it years back.  Just a rationale for
not bothering with the hassle of getting mutt on an oddball platform at
this juncture.

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