Hamish Moffat wrote: >>>Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either? >>>Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character terminal. >> >> Couldn't you pre-filter your email with procmail and a MIME extraction >> program? Maybe the packages mime-support (which `can be used to turn >> virtually any mail reader program into a multimedia mail reader') or >> mpack? > >I'd love to. But this machine is not a Debian box, it's my >account at university running Solaris 5.5.1, and there's no procmail, >or munpack, etc. Only metamail, which isn't very friendly. >Unfortunately, I doubt my disk quota runs to a permanent copy of >procmail, which sounds quite featureful and therefore probably >quite large.
If you're using OpenWindows, the standard mail program `mailtool' understands MIME. (Couldn't your admins install a system-wide copy of procmail?) >> After all, MIME is so well established and you're imposing the lowest >> common denominator on us. > >True, but I see no advantage in sending absolutely plain text messages >as MIME when some people (such as me) will complain. When attachments are involved, I agree, MIME simplifies things significantly >and metamail handles this adequately. Although I still use >Netscape when I'm trying to send file attachments. I agree with you and Dale on this. I assumed we were talking about uuencoding `attachments' instead of MIMEing them - having a MIME-compliant mailer, I'm not aware of the extent of the problem. Casper Boden-Cummins. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
