On the mutt home page there is a link to my:-

http://lacebark.ntu.edu.au/mutt.html

under a heading of "Additional MIME types patches" and "Mutt for chemists
patches". These originally refered to version 95.6i. I have now updated
these to refer to version 1.2.5. The main details are actually at:-

http://lacebark.ntu.edu.au/mutt/chemutt.html

but there is a link from mutt.html.

The pages now refer only to the addition to mutt of the MIME type
chemical. The problems discussed earlier for MIME types models and
visual have been fixed somewhere between 95.6 and 1.2.5.

Chemists have been using the MIME type chemical, particularly for web
pages, since 1994. Although it has never been officially accepted, this
has not deterred the chemistry community. In web pages it is used
particularly to send data for molecules that are then displayed with the
Chime pluggin for Netscape or Internet Explorer. However there are many
different subtypes. The chemistry MIME type can be used with other
mailers such as pine or elm without change to the code. mutt is stricter
so it has to be specifically added to mime.h, globals.h and parse.c.

My page may be useful for anyone who wishes to add any other MIME type, as
well as of course to chemists using mutt.

Cheers, Brian.

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Associate Professor Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
      School of Biological, Environmental and Chemical Sciences, SITE,
Northern Territory University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.  Phone 08-89466702. 
Fax 08-89466847          http://www.smps.ntu.edu.au/school/compchem.html

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