David,

I use RQF files daily (and I sing your praises for making life easier!), but I don't believe that the 4.41 Help entry for RQF has changed since early version 3. Your tip wrt MI: isn't in there; nor is ID: which allows sending from different identities. (Moreover, it says "no parameter may be omitted," but is that really the case?)  

Are there any other RQF parameters we might know about -- perhaps one that allows the use of environment variables? [g,d & r]

I am using pegasus mail on the command line with the -J option.  This is a great option and it works for me.  

My question is this:  How can I prevent Pegasus from adding the following block of text to my messages.

-------------- Enclosure number 1 ----------------
* This message contains the file 'qb.dat', which has been
* uuencoded. If you are using Pegasus Mail, then you can use
* the browser's eXtract function to lift the original contents
* out to a file, otherwise you will have to extract the message
* and uudecode it manually.

My -J options are:

QB.RQF
!M:145
!T:12
TO:noone@nowhere.gov
SU:Hello
EN:0
CS:0
RC:1
DC:1
UR:1
SS:1
EX:0
AT:C:\Program Files\PMAIL\Programs\qb.dat,unknown,text/plain,qb.dat

Thanks if you can answer this question; otherwise I will just live with it and explain to my recipients that the text file really is plain/text and not uuencoded.

Gravy

[quote user="Gravy Jones"]I am using pegasus mail on the command line with the -J option. This is a great option and it works for me.

My question is this: How can I prevent Pegasus from adding the following block of text to my messages.

-------------- Enclosure number 1 ----------------
* This message contains the file 'qb.dat', which has been
* uuencoded. If you are using Pegasus Mail, then you can use
* the browser's eXtract function to lift the original contents
* out to a file, otherwise you will have to extract the message
* and uudecode it manually.

My -J options are:

QB.RQF
!M:145
!T:12
TO:noone@nowhere.gov
SU:Hello
EN:0
CS:0
RC:1
DC:1
UR:1
SS:1
EX:0
AT:C:\Program Files\PMAIL\Programs\qb.dat,unknown,text/plain,qb.dat

Thanks if you can answer this question; otherwise I will just live with it and explain to my recipients that the text file really is plain/text and not uuencoded.

Gravy
[/quote]

Try changing the AT line to the following:

AT:C:\Program Files\PMAIL\Programs\qb.dat,text,text/plain,qb.dat

Don't know if it will work, but the second parameter is supposed to be the "attachment type" and you have "unknown" there.
 

If you look at the list of attachment types when you attach a file to a new message you will get a long list of types. But I would suggest you use Text or Binary.

Martin 

Thank you for the suggestion; unfortunately it did not solve the problem.  Also, I looked in preferences and settings for sending mail.  There was an option called "Don't add attachment information sections to multipart messages.'  I thought for sure that checking this option would solve my problem but it also did not help.

Now a strange thing occurs.  The command line mailer doesn't always send my messages. Now it sometimes queues them up in the Queue Manager.  Is there a setting to prevent this and to always cause PM to mail without queueing up.  To me it is very odd that this feature starting doing this.  I know for sure that I didn't change an option that could affect this.

FWIW I don't use the command-line options for Pegasus Mail when I have to send a text file from the command-line, I use blat. Get it here: http://www.blat.net/

Thank you.  I have downloaded blat source and run time.  It will be interesting to look at the source code.  I am a windows c++ developer.

You need to turn on MIME support, by adding the line:

MI:1

to your file.

Cheers!

-- David --

[quote user="Angus Scott-Fleming"]FWIW I don't use the command-line options for Pegasus Mail when I have to send a text file from the command-line, I use blat. [/quote]

Why wouldn't you? It's easy to do. Basic instructions on constructing an RQF file are available in the Help file, and many of us use them. 

[quote user="Paul in NJ"][quote user="Angus Scott-Fleming"]FWIW I don't use the command-line options for Pegasus Mail when I have to send a text file from the command-line, I use blat. [/quote]

Why wouldn't you? It's easy to do. Basic instructions on constructing an RQF file are available in the Help file, and many of us use them.

[/quote]

I agree with Angus here.  Sending via the Pegasus Mail commandline is like using a sledge hammer to kill a fly.  I either use Blat or in most cases simply put a 101 message file in glue headers format into the Mercury queue.  Both use a lot fewer resources and are a lot easier to use.