Re: How to set up MetaMail?
Wmcs (wmcs@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 26 Dec 1996 22:23:09 -0800
bergy1@telusplanet.net (Kim Bergman) wrote:
>In article <sflwyIcj1iDS090yn@image.dk>, jbang@image.dk (Jens Bang) wrote:
>>
>>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. :-)
>>
>
>I believe you. Anyway it's probably irrelevant since metamail does run
>for me, it just won't run the apps. More precisely, I get the SYS1041
>error when metamail tries to run any app.
>
>>>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.
>>
>
>All the apps are on my path and I don't use full pathnames in the
>mailcaps file. I also
>tried full pathnames. Still doesn't work. Tried forslash, backslash
>and double backslash with no success. Checked the pathnmae for the
>mailcaps environment var, tried forslash, backslash and double backslash
>there too, no luck. Uppercase vs. lowercase makes no difference either.
>The runtime behavior is always exactly the same, even if I don't define
>the mailcaps environment variable in config.sys. Yes, I reboot after
>modifying config.sys.
>
>Strange! What works for you doesn't work for Jerry Levy and neither
>yours nor Jerry's method works for me. Are we all at different
>emx.dll revision levels? When I run emxrev.cmd I get:
>
>EMX : revision = 50
>EMXIO : revision = 50
>EMXLIBC : revision = 52
>EMXLIBCM : revision = 52
>EMXLIBCS : revision = 52
>EMXWRAP : revision = 50
>
>What do you get? Jerry?
>
>Thanks for your help and suggestions so far.
>
>--
>
> Regards,
>
> Kim Bergman
>
>
try putting this into your mailcap file ...
application/octet-stream; du:\\viewer\\viewer.exe %s
where du:\\viewer\\viewer.exe is the path and filename of your
graphics viewer...