Re: Install metamail; help.

Toth Ferenc (etus@hungary.net)
Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:05:37 +0200

rronkin@cpcug.org (R. R. Ronkin) wrote:
> 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?

Yes, you need it, if the program looks for it. BUT you need only a
few files (often called emx-runtimes or similar on ftp sites) and not
a complete "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?

Move the cursor onto it and open it. Yarn will ask to process the
message. Answer yes and see.

You need a short "config" file for metamail as well.

An example:
------------------------------------------------------------
text/html; move %s %s.html && start explore %s.html
text/*; g:/fc/fc.exe /v %s
image/gif; g:\Applications\PMView\pmview.exe %s
image/jpg; g:\Applications\PMView\pmview.exe %s
------------------------------------------------------------

and you need two environment variables as well. But these are described
in the readme file with metamail.

-- 
Etus


Toth Ferenc <etus@hungary.net>
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