extcompose(1)

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extcompose(1) 💌

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for extcompose — the little helper that composes a reference to external data for inclusion in a mail message. Let's get into it 💅

💖 NAME 💖

extcompose — compose a reference to external data for inclusion in a mail message. That's the whole vibe: you're not stuffing the data into the mail itself, you're making a reference to it, bestie ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

extcompose file-name

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the extcompose program lets a user on a properly-equipped workstation enter the appropriate data so that a mail message they're sending can make a reference to "external" data — meaning data that is not included in the mail message itself but is otherwise available on the network via a suitable mechanism. slay, but make it network-aware 🦋

The user gets prompted for all the necessary information. External data may be referenced as:

  • local or AFS files
  • files available for FTP — anonymous or authenticated
  • data available via a mailserver mechanism

You'll be asked to provide a MIME content-type value to describe the type of data being referenced, and to specify whether or not the data has been encoded with one of the algorithms for encoding data for email. (Such encoding is not necessary, and is in fact inefficient and silly when used with externally referenced data.) not me defending the no-encoding lifestyle, but the page said it 😭

This program is intended primarily to be called from mailcap files by programs like mailto(1). iykyk 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go look at these too, bestie:

okay legal moment — I'm keeping this exactly as written, because messing with legal text is not the vibe:

Copyright (c) 1992 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies, and that the name of Bellcore not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to this material without the specific, prior written permission of an authorized representative of Bellcore. BELLCORE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR SUITABILITY OF THIS MATERIAL FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore — author credit, periodt 👑

that's the whole page, bestie — Release 1, General Commands Manual, and the only year-date energy is 1992 from the copyright; footer sign-off, done 💜🫶

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