Re: How to set up MetaMail?

Jens Bang (jbang@image.dk)
Thu, 26 Dec 1996 01:59:44 +0100

In article <ABZwyoag9bUP091yn@telusplanet.net>,
bergy1@telusplanet.net (Kim Bergman) wrote:
>>>>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.
>>
>
>Does it work now?

Yes.

[About munpack]

>>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.

OK. I'm glad you got it cleared up.

>>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

Thanks for the address and the file names. Actually I think I have seen
os2md6.zip on my FidoNet boss' BBS. And I get better transfer rates from
him. :-)

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