Re: Metamail and mailcap

From: Katt Freyson (Katt@dsuper.net)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:00:16 -0400

> I am surpirsed you did not receive metamail.1 when you obtained
> the program itself.

Well, the man pages did not come with the DOS distribution
files, the one that has only the metamail.exe. I donwloaded the
other distribution, but didn't have a program to untar the file.

> Finally, I thought of a trick to make metamail save to a file
> optionally, for certain files. Say you had a line like,

> text/*; save.bat %s

> in mailcap. Then, you could put prompts and ``type %1 >
> filename'' or whatever you wanted in save.bat, and metamail
> should run save.bat for you whenever it encounters mime encoded
> text files.

Thanks. That may work. Right now what I did was comment out
the decode line Config and will save any message that has mime
content. Then using munpack I will decode them. This works.

Thanks for your help, will try those!