Re: Mime, Netfax, and posting on Comp.Mail.Mime

Stuart Lynne <sl@wimsey.com> Sun, 07 March 1993 09:47 UTC

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From: Stuart Lynne <sl@wimsey.com>
Subject: Re: Mime, Netfax, and posting on Comp.Mail.Mime
To: "Alan R. Katz" <katz@adonis.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1993 01:30:06 -0800
Cc: Harald.T.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no, Cohen@isi.edu, mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu, netfax@stubbs.ucop.edu
In-Reply-To: <9303070123.AA12089@Adonis.Com> from "Alan R. Katz" at Mar 6, 93 05:23:18 pm
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> So, if you are building a gateway that accepts message with G3 data
> in it (say X.400), you have three choices:
> 
> 	1.  Decode the data and encode in Netfax, MMR recommended
> 	    unless you want to eat up disk space (or have low quality
> 	    fax images).
> 
> 	2.  Decline to translate certain types (say, if its MR or MH
> 	    but not byte-aligned).
> 
> 	3.  Define yet another MIME body part called raw G3 or something
> 	    and use that.  If you do, you are pushing the conversion
> 	    problem onto the recipient.

There is a proposed MIME data type for X.400 G3 datatypes as part of the
X.400 gatewaying specifications. 

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Mime, Netfax, and posting on Comp.Mail.Mime Alan R. Katz
Re: Mime, Netfax, and posting on Comp.Mail.Mime Stuart Lynne