Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 06:21:56 -0800 From: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> To: "Riley J. McIntire" <rjmcintire@earthlink.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Forwarding a mail file Message-ID: <3AA0FE04.D3CCDDB9@pacbell.net> References: <NCBBLBILEPCHLFJAPIIPMEPGFFAA.rjmcintire@earthlink.net>
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The second example should work ... with caveats regarding the file size and the need for split(1). The first example, with "!"s inserted, hails from the days of UUCP, back in the days before the Internet (as we know it today) ... when invoking that line with a shell, one would have to precede each "!" with a backslash to keep the shell from interpreting it as a historical reference to a previous command. What you seeing in that example is, amazingly enough, a message being hand-routed with the sender being able to select exactly what route he wants his packets to traverse. How baroque it all seems, now, but I remember when being ..!ptsfa!calma!childers was the ultimate ... <sigh> Regards, -- richard "Riley J. McIntire" wrote: > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of richard > > childers > > > > I would use uuencode(1) combined with your file transfer protocol > > of choice. In > > this way, there is no danger that intervening MTAs (Mail Transfer > > Agents) will > > Another suggested uuencode too. Which I'd prefer to installing > procmail/formail, at least to learn how to use it. Also, this system is > strictly a mail server on which I don't like to haphazardly install programs > I'm unfamiliar with. At least those that don't come with the system. :-) > > I tried this by analogy with man uuencode's example (uuencode src_tree.tar.Z > | mail sys1!sys2!user) > > uuencode /var/mail/test |mail -s test user@domain.com > > Which didn't work. I'm quite ignorant about /usr/bin/mail and have never > used uuencode, and haven't found reference yet to the sys1!sys2!user syntax > or its interpretation. > > Thanks, > > Riley -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 203.556.8471 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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