It's nice to see a uuencode email attachment once again!
I was worried a MIME attachment might not get passed through the automation, so I stayed with tried and true methods.
Clem (who, by the way, is correct about the origin of fmt, it was
part of Kurt Shoens' Mail program at Berkeley) has perfect timing.
This coming Monday, 6/1/2020, is the 40th anniversary of the
uuencode email attachment. (The date is based on the date in the
uuencode man page in the 2.8BSD and 4.2BSD archives at
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/ )
I could not have told you date, but I do remember when you sent it ber and myself, specifically.
There has been some amusing coverage of the "25th anniversary of
the email attachment", commemorating Nat Borenstien's creation of
MIME in 1992.
And his scheme does not work on IBM Mainframes or 6-bit machine as is (Nat required an 8 bit path). Your scheme passed through all known systems at the time.
Any thoughts on a proper commemoration of the 40th anniversary?
Can't say I know the proper way to do that, other than to say thank you and acknowledge the hack as a darned creative solution to an issue a lot of us had.
Clem