On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Glenn wrote:

> > Date:    Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:07:31 -0500
> > From:    Bill Earle <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Proper wasy of sending attachements to a Listserv list?
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction for:
> > 1. the proper method to send attachments to a Listserv list?
> > 2. proper list config.info?
> > 3. a list of MIME header[s] that are honored by Listserv?
> >    - Our e-mail clients each had a different idea of the proper
> >      MIME headers to send.
> >
> > Description:
> > - Recently we had an time sensitive announcement, that needed to be
> >   send to the recpients of (2) large lists, in the form of a PDF
> >   file. We made several test deliveries using different e-mail clients
> >   to different Listserv lists. We could not get successful results
> >   with any of our combinations and resorted to a brute force mass
> >   mailing without using Listserv.
>
> Please forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but why not post the
> PDF on a secure (HTTPS) and password-or-otherwise protected web page
> and just email a link to the PDF out to the list members?

Glenn,

A very good suggestion and all very real issues and benefits.
Unfortunately we are not in a position to place any limitations
on the requests that we receive. By the time we receive the request,
it has already gone through a much higher chain of command and we
simply execute. We do make "suggestions" for format, etc., that
you do. :)

Does anyone have a reliable method to post messages that contain
MIME attachements?

- Bill


> This avoids any possible issues with
> a) attachment encoding by sending MUA
> b) size limits on recipient mailboxes
> c) recipient MUA limitations
> d) time-delay in delivering large files to many recipients over the internet
> e) ...
>
> Also, in the case where all the users are on the same system, there are
> better ways to deliver large files, better known as bulletins, to all
> users on the system, or to a select group of users.  Some programs have
> such features as hard-linking the message into everyone's Maildir so
> that only one copy is on the system rather than filling up disk space
> for X copies.
>
> Cheers,
> Glenn
>