Install metamail; help.

R. R. Ronkin (rronkin@cpcug.org)
Tue, 30 Jul 1996 10:31:26 -0400

I received a 500 kB message from a friend; it was encoded to ASCII
garbage and Yarn did not decode it. An extract of the message header
follows:

<start extract>

Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="PART.BOUNDARY.0.18270.emout08.mail.aol.com.838519813"
X-Status: N

--PART.BOUNDARY.0.18270.emout08.mail.aol.com.838519813
Content-ID: <0_18270_838519814@emout08.mail.aol.com.12425>
Content-type: text/plain

here's the whole file, via aol, I hope.

--PART.BOUNDARY.0.18270.emout08.mail.aol.com.838519813
Content-ID: <0_18270_838519814@emout08.mail.aol.com.12426>
Content-type: application/octet-stream;
name="WORK.DOC"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

<end extract>

I suspected the problem was lack of metamail or similar software. So I
downloaded the os/2 version of metamail.zip and tried to execute
metamail.exe, only to be told the system couldn't find the program file
emx.exe. So now I have 2 questions:

1. Do I need emx, which is a massive software tool?

2. If I install metamail in Yarn's config file, how can I get it to
operate on the message that already has been received and imported?

Thanks very much for your comments.

Rafe
R. R. Ronkin
rronkin@cpcug.org