[wellylug] Any (linux) solutions for Content-Type: message/partial?

[Jo Booth]

On 6/03/2006, at 11:58 , David Murray wrote:
>
>> Nothing major, as I can probably convince the sender to do  
>> something other than send 12Mb via email. But i'm sure others may  
>> have had similar issues.
>
> But *why* send 12 megs through email?
>
> Wouldn't it be easier all round to put it up on an HTTP or FTP  
> server and give you the URL? Or to simply hand or post the stuff to  
> you on a CD?

Aye.  I've had a message of this type from a person using outlook in  
the past, but what prompted me to investigate is we recently acquired  
a new fancy ricoh photocopier at work - one that can scan stuff and  
email it.  It can also can scan to a file server - but that requires  
a proprietary windows driver to "pull" the files, and we're all macs  
over here (with a token pc or two running linux).

Stupidly enough, the photocopier has a ftp server built-in -- for  
getting logs and status only tho :P

Anyway, back to the reason.  At present our mail server is external  
and connected to via a nice 64k of bandwidth. not at all practical  
for email files to ones desk via 64k to 'net and back again, but  
required for emailing to external clients or staff in other locations.

So I enabled the local mail server, and am sending direct to my desk  
(from 4 metres away) via local email. so i'm happy.

I've also checked the photocopier settings -- and it will happily  
send as one massive attachment.  It's just the (Telecom) mail server  
won't accept huge attachments (and rightly so) - so i'd love to see  
if there is a Merging solution I can put to use if required.

As I said, no big issue, just putting it out there...

I wonder if there are any mail clients (other than outlook) that can  
do the combination. I primarily use Mail.app on OS X (and it doesn't  
do it), tho I use Opera M2 cross platform as well (haven't checked  
it).  I'm happy to send people random emails from the photocopier if  
they want to check ;)

-Jo.




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