Compress Mail via sendmail.cf + rmail script

[joe at auspyr.UUCP]

in article <12296 at sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish at Sun.COM (Guy Harris) says:
> 
>>In general when using mail, it's is best to use some binary -> ascii
>>converter between compress and the mailer.
> 
> To quote from RFC 821, "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol":

Somebody has gotten confused here.  My orginal message said nothing
about sending the compressed data via a mailer. It would go threw
a UUX command to a shell script, de-compressed, then mailed in ascii form.

Eg:

	local!mail remote!person 
	|
	|
	sendmail.cf
		|
		|--- remote site is a compressed mail site?
			|(y)
			|
			compress mail | uux - remote!uncompressmail args

	( uucp transfer )
				
	remote!uuxqt
	|
	remote!uncompressmail
		|
		compress -d stdin | rmail args


This would create a compressed transport layer.	
I don't know how to implement this via arpa, perhaps using ftp or
something. But I'm not worried about arpa. Only the UUX and UUXQT
commands would be dealing with the compressed (binary) data in
stdin and stdout, respectively.

Anyways, I have shown that the theory works and will soon post
instructions/scripts for setting up a compressed mail transport
mechanism (within the BSD/sendmail domain of systems); I'm also
working on a batched form that would work similar to batched news.

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