Re: How to set up MetaMail?

Jens Bang (jbang@image.dk)
Wed, 25 Dec 1996 02:06:14 +0100

In article <tdyvyoag9D3H091yn@telusplanet.net>,
bergy1@telusplanet.net (Kim Bergman) wrote:
>>My Yarn config file contains this line:
>>
>>decode-mime=M:\Jens\Internet\MetaMail\MetaMail %f

I found out that you _have_ to put MetaMail in your path. You can't just do
like I did.

>Can't help much with metamail. I gave up on it and got munpack which
>does almost the same thing but apparently doesn't handle all the mime
>types. Another detraction is that it just saves mime attaches to a
>directory and doesn't start any apps to view/process the attaches.
>Don't know if metamail does that, I didn't really give it the effort it
>probably deserves, munpack was so easy and it does what I need for now.

It sounds precisely like what I need. Which MIME types doesn't it handle?

Do you know of any other programs that work like munpack? Do you know where
I can get munpack?

--


CUL8R dude!                       \|/
                                  @ @
Jens  +-----------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-----------------------+
      | Internet   jbang@image.dk     CompuServe    100437,2475 |
      | FidoNet         2:235/142     VirNet          9:451/238 |
      | OS2Net          81:445/49     Fax     +45 - 3537 - 7006 |
      +---------------------------------------------------------+