mimeto7bit(1M)

mimeto7bit -- encode MIME message into 7-bit message

Synopsis

/usr/lib/mail/surrcmd/mimeto7bit < mime-message > encoded-mime-message

Description

mimeto7bit is used by the mail SMTP system to convert non-7-bit MIME messages into 7-bit MIME messages. The mail message, read from standard input, must be a MIME message (mime-message). Any parts of the message that have a ``Content-Transfer-Encoding'' heading of 8bit or binary will have its contents converted to quoted-printable or base64, respectively.

If the message is not a MIME message, the conversion will fail.

The converted message is written to standard output.

References

mail(1)