Re: How to set up MetaMail?

Kim Bergman (bergy1@telusplanet.net)
Wed, 25 Dec 1996 07:27:21 -0700

In article <G4HwyIcj1CYH090yn@image.dk>, jbang@image.dk (Jens Bang) wrote:
>
>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.

Weird. So it works now?

Does it run the appropriate app for you or just drop the attached file(s) into
a directory?

>
>>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. I think I was wrong saying it apparently doesn't
handle all the mime types. Why shouldn't it? It seems to me that all files, gif,
mov, avi, wav, whatever, all just get base64 encoded, none require special treatment to
attach/detach. The part boundaries also work the same regardless of type and subtype,
I think.

>Do you know of any other programs that work like munpack?

I spotted this ...

os2md6.zip 29989 Dec 1 1995 OS2md, OS/2 MIME message decoder

in the hobbes index but have never tried it.

> Do you know where I can get munpack?
>

2 sources:
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/
hobbes in /os2/archivers/mpack15o.zip

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Regards,

Kim Bergman