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What files do you send frequently?
Usually application files such a MS Word, Excel or Access, or graphics.
Sometimes other files, such as programs, compressed with PKZIP. I tend to only
e-mail stuff if it's relatively small, say < 200k -- anything bigger, I'd
usually FTP it.
What email software do you use?
Various; Mainly Netscape 2.0 and FirstClass, although for particularly
tricky attachment encoding/decoding jobs I don't think you can beat the
powerful and free Pegasus Mail for Windows, although it can be a real pain to
set up, particularly with a Demon account!
Do you find it easy to use?
FirstClass & Netscape are very easy to use, because they don't give you many
options -- you get the default encoding type (MIME Base64 I think). Pegasus is
slightly more involved, but much more configurable, and can handle pretty much
whatever you throw at it.
Does your software have a decode option?
Pegasus only -- Netscape and FirstClass either work, or they don't
Do you use any other software to code, decode or compress emailed files?
If so what?
I often use PKZIP and the Windows front-end WinZip to compress files before
sending, or decompress received files. I've got a shareware app. called
Wincode for manually decoding UUEncoded files, but haven't needed to use it
for a while.
Another option you might like to consider when transferring files between
two desktop machines with IP services (if you haven't got access to a UNIX FTP
server) is to set up an FTP client on one, and an FTP server on the other --
both are available on a shareware 'try before you buy' basis. We occasionally
use WFTPD (32-bit) as a PC FTP server, and regularly use the excellent
WS-FTP32 as an FTP client, both for interacting with other PCs or with our3
UNIX server.
Have you any experience of emailing files crossplatform ie Mac-to-PC or
vice versa?
Yup -- it can be tricky. Mac e-mail software seems to like BinHex encoding
best, although MIME is increasingly supported. The use of UUEncoding doesn't
appear to be particularly widespread amongst the Mac community, although this
is just my perception.
Have you had any problems with this (Mac to PC)? If so what, and have
you found any solutions?
Yes -- Eudora, a popular mailer found on both Macs & PCs, doesn't support
UUEncoding (at least not the version my friend had). The solutions were to use
Pegasus Mail and BinHex encoding.
Have you experience of emailing graphics files? If so are any formats
better/worse than others?
It shouldn't make any difference, because they shouldn't get 'mangled' by
the encoding/decoding process. If you need graphics that work across Macs &
PCs, both GIFs and JPEGs should do the job OK. TIFFs transfer quite well too.
Have you had any difficulty with graphics included in Word or
Wordperfect files?
No.
Hope this helps,
Tony
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