Does it work now?
>>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?
>
The docs don't say. Now that I'm more familiar with mime I suspect it
handles all types. It seems to me there is no need to treat one
type much different than any other type. They all get base64 encoded.
I read a review that said like "munpack doesn't do as much as metamail"
and I misunderstood it to mean it doesn't do all types. Now, after
playing with it for a while, I think the reviewer simply meant it
doesn't start any applications on the extracted files. It doesn't
require a mailcaps file.
>Do you know of any other programs that work like munpack? Do you know where
>I can get munpack?
>
Try ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/archivers for:
mpack15o.zip 80151 Aug 10 1995 Mpack/munpack v1.5, encode/decode MIME mail messages
os2md6.zip 29989 Dec 1 1995 OS2md, OS/2 MIME message decoder
I haven't tried the os2md6.zip but it sounds like it's similar to
munpack.
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