NetMail/3000 Menu Interface

Users Guide

If you specified “8BIT” as the “Type”, you must now select an “ Encoding” . The default encoding for “8BIT” messages is the MIME standard “Quoted Printable” encoding. The technical description of how this works is involved, but basically you only need to remember that you will normally choose “Quoted Printable” encoding when sending messages with non-english (8-bit) characters in them. If you know that the e-mail package the recipients of your message are using is NOT MIME compatible, you may need to pick one of the other encodings - typically “UUENCODE” for older Unix or PC mail systems, and “BINHEX” for Macintosh systems which you know are not MIME capable.

Now, if you selected to compose a new message, the editor you have selected will be run and you will compose your message. If you are using the NETEDIT editor provided with this package, you can get further information on how to use it in the chapter on NETEDIT. After you have finished composing the message and have exited the message editor, you will be returned to a new pop-up window as described below.

If you selected a file that already existed to be sent as your message, then you the file will be loaded (in the background) and you will proceed on to the following screen also.

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