My original question asked for recommendations for transparent decoding of
uuencoded attachments/inclusions.
Thanks to all who responded.
The opinions ranged from obtaining a uudecoding capable POP reader for the
users (Eudora, Pegasus, etc.), to ignoring them on the grounds that they
don't have a clue ;)). True, but unfortunately, I can't ignore them.
Using a uudecoding capable reader, or PC based decoder, is fine for
properly attached files, and in fact, I do have some of each in place. My
problem is with messages that have uuencoded files included in the body of
the message, which has been forwarded and contains leading carets. These
come to our site fairly regularly, and are not readable by any standard
decoder. I've written a program on the UNIX mail server which will decode
even these, but our users don't want to have to save the file and run the
decoder on it. They want to have it decoded transparently. The only
suggestion that would give them what they want was to build a daemon that
would monitor incoming mail and filter it before it gets to the end user.
Doable, but a hell of a project to have to undertake to compensate for
people who should know better than to send uuencoded messages that way.
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Richard Eisenman 100 Sprout Road
UNIX/Network Administrator Richland WA
Washington State University Tri-Cities 99352
eisenman_at_tricity.wsu.edu (509) 372-7381
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Received on Wed Nov 20 1996 - 17:26:05 NZDT