| Multipurpose Internet extensions (MIME) allow email users to exchange non-ASCII textual messages and information in message headers. Click here for detailed information on MIME. We address here just two points poping up in daily life. |
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How can I extract mail with attachements without having to use pine or
a Netscape mailer? |
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On Unix use the CMU programs "mpack" and "munpack". (Look here
for a solution with "metasend" and "metamail"). For mpack on Macintosh, look
here . An example how Alice (alice) writes to Bob (bob.org) and sends him a jpg file photo.jpg. |
mpack -s "photo for you" photo.jpg bob.org |
| Bob (bob.org) unpacks the file by saving Alice's email first in a file "fromalice.tmp" and then uses the command: |
munpack fromalice.tmp |
| to unpack it. |
| How do I configure Netscape so that it opens a PDF,DVI or PS viewer automatically under Linux or Solaris? |
| Check the entries in the three files ~/.netcape/preferences.js , ~/.mailcap and ~/mime-types . In ".netcape/preferences.js" you should have among other entries |
user_pref("helpers.private_mailcap_file", "~/.mailcap");
user_pref("helpers.private_mime_types_file", "~/.mime.types");
user_pref("mime.table.extension.ps.outgoing_default_typ", "application/x-ps");
user_pref("mime.table.extension.pdf.outgoing_default_typ", "application/pdf");
user_pref("mime.table.extension.dvi.outgoing_default_typ", "application/x-dvi");
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| in ".mailcap", there should be |
application/x-dvi;xdvi %s application/pdf;gv %s application/x-ps;gv %s |
| in ".mime.types", there should be |
type=application/x-ps desc="Postscript Document" exts="ai,eps,ps" type=application/pdf desc="Portable Document Format" exts="pdf" type=application/x-dvi desc="TeX Dvi file" exts="dvi" |
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Simplicity, Clarity, Generality
B.W. Kernighan, R. Pike, in "The Practice of Programming".
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