[Gambas-user] Gmail Attachment Pipe

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 16/02/2021 à 19:58, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> On 2/16/21 1:02 PM, Christof Thalhofer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i wrote a small project which packs a file especially for Gmail so that
>> it can be attached and sent without Gmail rejecting it:
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/christhal/gmailpipe
>>
>> You can pack a 'project.tar.gz' into 'project.tar.gz.gmail.txt' and 
>> reverse.
>>
>> It's also in the software farm. Please try it out and have fun with it.
>> If it works we could think about integrating it into the IDE.
>>
>> Alles Gute
>>
>> Christof Thalhofer
> 
> I think it is a sad thing when people have to adapt a software 
> development environment just to mitigate the heavy handedness of 
> GMailFilter. Unfortunately, I see no other practical solution.
> 
> Perhaps the ideal solution would be to utilize a mail client addon to 
> optionally pack on send and unpack on receive. But, alas, that would 
> certainly be an addon development nightmare.
> 
> Then there is the idea of a command line utility (or utilities) that 
> could be added in to the File Manager context-sensitive menu. But, 
> again, not even close to ideal given the myriad Desktops in use, and it 
> would be an extra step outside of the IDE.
> 
> Oh well. Leaving that aside...
> 
> Since we strip the first and last lines, the salt could, and I think 
> should, be randomized.
> 
> 

Maybe I could add that format to the IDE?

Maybe using instead "project.tar.xxx.base64" extension ?

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Benoît Minisini