Re: How to set up MetaMail?

Jens Bang (jbang@image.dk)
Thu, 26 Dec 1996 11:48:12 +0100

In article <REkwyoag9HlR091yn@telusplanet.net>,
bergy1@telusplanet.net (Kim Bergman) wrote:
>>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
>>
>
>decode-mime=g:\somedir\metamail %f works for me as far as getting
>metamail to start up and decode the message. Somedir is not on my
>path.

Well, it doesn't work at my end. :-)

>The above suggests to me that metamail.exe runs and decodes the
>message but there is a problem running the application. It won't run
>pmjpeg, pmmpeg, e, a simple REXX test script or anything else.
>
>It will save the extracted file to disk and it will show it as "text"
>but it seems that running the apps gives the SYS1041 error. Where
>else would the SYS1041 come from?
>
>Has anybody got metamail running the apps? Is metamail broken and
>limited to just saving the file or showing it as "text"?

Well, I can get my MetaMail to run other apps. Are you sure you have the
right path to your apps.

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