MIME-mail fax

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Hi,

On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 12:21:43PM +0200, Ingo Brueckl wrote:
> Is there a solution for sending a MIME-encoded mail as fax, i.e.
> automatically converting the MIME-parts?

Nothing ready yet.  Someone forwarded a pointer to a program to decode
MIME to this list recently (maybe two months ago), but I forgot the
address.  Maybe you can find something in the list archives.

Basically, you could start with "metamail" and use a modified "mailcap"
that will save the different parts non-interactively, to files with
extensions denoting their type ("application/postscript" -> .ps), and
then just run faxspool over the files generated that way.

I don't think it is very hard, it's just that nobody ever needed it
badly enough to implement it.

gert
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