Handling Email attachments

Vinil Menon has an interesting tip (Updated: new link) on sending attachments when mailing restrictions are in place.

Over cautious sys admins prevent all emails with zip attachments and doc files fearing virus attacks. So how do we get genuine attachments across?

UUEncode converts binary stuff to 7-bit ascii. Winzip can convert a zip file to UUE (Actions -> UUEncode) and the content in the UUE file opened through a text editor can be pasted into your email singly as a message. The receipient has to save the text of the message as a UUE file and it can be opened with Winzip again.

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