[net.unix-wizards] Ways in which mail programs modify the body of a message?

bradn@tekecs.UUCP (06/21/83)

After several unsuccessful attempts to send lex scripts through the mail,
I am faced with the following question:
	Can anyone describe a set of rules which will assure me that letters
	will make it through the network mail UNALTERED?

So far, I have learned the following rules:
	1) no line of the letter begins with the word "From".
	2) no line of the letter begins with a any word followed by a colon -
	  e.g. "Confirm:".
	2) the letter contains no adjacent backslashes.
	3) no line of the letter contains more than eighty characters.

Brad Needham
Tektronix, Inc.

Michael.Young%cmu-cs-g@sri-unix.UUCP (06/30/83)

A good way to escape most of the problems you mention is to use "uuencode"
and "uudecode" (if you have them, or something similar if you don't).
Of course, your receiver has to understand to decode them, but that
would probably be clear anyway.

			Michael