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Re: Sending email with attachments

Date 2012-10-04 02:46 +0100
From Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Sending email with attachments
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Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In comp.lang.javascript,
> Dr J R Stockton  <reply1240@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>> You can display the data, and the address, etc., and invite the user to
>> copy'n'paste into their ordinary E-mail system.  Ensure that the data
>> fits in 72 characters per line, with newlines between, and uses only
>> 7-bit characters, and has a data delimiter before and after, and it
>> should be possible to extract it reliably from a received E-mail.  That
>> should all be easy for you to arrange.
> 
> If the poster does go down that route, be aware that whitespace
> get mangled in email often, so not making whitespace significant
> will help to reliably extract the message. (Or make all whitespace
> interchangable: one newline is as good as two spaces, etc.)
> 
> Really the simple way to do this, is format the data however you
> want, then apply the standard base64 encoding to it, and add headers.
> The message will look a lot like a raw mail attachment, or a PGP
> encypted block, or a SSL certificate, or ...

The whitespace issue is a good point against sending the data unencoded.

The data is spreadsheet-like, and needs to end up in a spreadsheet, so
csv is the obvious text format, but newlines are significant. Breaking a
long line into two shorter lines would create two spreadsheet rows where
there should be one.

Patricia

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Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-01 22:49 -0700
  Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 04:20 -0700
    Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 05:16 -0700
      Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-02 07:10 -0700
        Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 10:57 -0700
    Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-02 07:03 -0700
      Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 10:50 -0700
        Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-02 11:16 -0700
          Re: Sending email with attachments dann90038@gmail.com - 2012-10-02 12:15 -0700
      Re: Sending email with attachments "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-10-02 21:28 +0200
        Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-02 12:59 -0700
  Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-02 22:26 +0200
    Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-03 20:04 +0100
    Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-06 02:07 +0100
      Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-06 08:48 +0200
        Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-06 20:29 +0100
          Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-06 21:49 +0200
            Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-07 08:13 +0100
              Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-07 14:28 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 00:43 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-08 03:26 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 07:18 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-08 11:13 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 18:57 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 09:46 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-10-08 12:01 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 19:16 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-10-08 09:28 -0700
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 18:34 +0100
          Re: Sending email with attachments Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-10-07 12:46 +0200
            Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-07 18:55 +0200
              Re: Sending email with attachments Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-10-07 20:06 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-07 22:12 +0200
            Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-07 19:54 +0100
            Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 01:09 +0100
              Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-08 13:10 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 19:20 +0100
              OT: Mac vs PC for development  (Was: Sending email with attachments) Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-08 08:38 -0700
  Re: Sending email with attachments Dr J R Stockton <reply1240@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-10-03 19:49 +0100
    Re: Sending email with attachments Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2012-10-03 23:08 +0000
      Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-04 02:46 +0100
        Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-03 19:42 -0700
    Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-04 02:43 +0100
      Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-03 19:54 -0700

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