> 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. > 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. A FreeBSD system I use has a special version of elm with native MIME support. "ELM 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)" This would be nice on debian. hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]