Re: How to set up MetaMail?

Jens Bang (jbang@image.dk)
Thu, 26 Dec 1996 02:04:21 +0100

In article </oXwyo6G7ChF092yn@ibm.net>, jlevy@ibm.net (Jerry Levy) wrote:
>To start, these lines are OK
>>>decode-mime=M:\Jens\Internet\MetaMail\MetaMail %f

Nope, this line is _not_ OK. You have to put MetaMail.exe in a directory in
your path, and then use

decode-mime=metamail %f

>but here below you should be using forward slashes in the paths,
>a reflection of the UNIX origins of the metamail program
>Thus in place of
>>>text/*; e %s
>>>image/gif; F:\APPLICATIONS\PMJPEG15\PMJPEG.EXE %s
>>>image/jpg; F:\APPLICATIONS\PMJPEG15\PMJPEG.EXE %s
>you should use this
>text/*; e %s
>image/gif; F:/APPLICATIONS/PMJPEG15/PMJPEG.EXE %s
>image/jpg; F:/APPLICATIONS/PMJPEG15/PMJPEG.EXE %s

Or you could use

image/jpeg; F:\\APPLICATIONS\\PMJPEG15\\PKJPEG.EXE %s

i.e. use a double backslash. At least it works here.

[Cut idea for .cmd-file that changes the save-directory]

Thanks for the idea.

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