NetMail/3000 Menu Interface
Users Guide
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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.
