On Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:35:25 -0400 Chris Bartram said: > In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes: > >> You may want to check with your cc:Mail admin (if not yourself :) ) or >> with Lotus - we use cc:Mail and can receive both MIME- and uuencoded >> documents. > >This is a function of the capability of the SMTP gateway in use. If you're >using the Lotus cc:Mail SMTP gateway, it doesn't understand MIME (unless >they've just started shipping a new version). Don't feel too bad though, >Microsoft's SMTP gateway for MSMail also doesn't understand MIME. You hit the nail on the head there, Chris, but you need to hit it again :-) The "big name" mailers which incorporate *any* form of SMTP are notoriously horrible (speaking from the trenches). They might look good if you use them enterprise-wide because they darn well should be able to talk to each other, but when you export/import mail to different messaging systems they tend to favor simply "encapsulating" their messages inside SMTP protocol and expect the receiving system to be -- guess what -- another mailer of their brand. Few mail systems implement the most fundamental RFC-822 message addressing formats, let alone the RFC-721(?) SMTP transport protocol; these are nearly two decades old and widely established (sendmail for example). MIME is the least common denominator to extending "open" mail (and I don't mean OpenMail). >Even the "proprietary" HP3000 has had MIME capability (via a third party >which I won't name! ;-) ) since about 1993. And you no doubt recall how much I bitched at this unnamed third party until it worked right, RFCs and all :-) Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>