"hysterion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Howdy.
>
> I'm looking at page http://www.math.temple.edu/~zeilberg/KisterReply
> with Communicator (4.5 for Mac), and I'd like to know how it works.
>
> What I observe:
>
> 1) Navigator displays it exactly as Messenger would a mail message,
> with headers formatted according to the option I last selected
> in MESSENGER's View > Headers > All | Normal | Brief menu.
> (Note: Navigator's View menu has no such options.)
That makes sense.
> 2) If I save it (as source) and then open the file, it renders as
> just plain text with all headers. Same with View > Page Source,
> except that anything in <brackets> is colored. No html tags.
Right. That's because a message/rfc822 document is
just a plain textfile containing a mail message and
headers. HTTP can send MIME info (telling the browser
it's message/rfc822) but the file:// protocol can't, so
it just treats it as a textfile.
> 3) If I open it in Composer and save, I get something completely
> different: full html code, the headers are now in a <TABLE>.
Right. Composer opens the HTML the message was
converted to for display (Mozilla can only handle XML
and HTML for layout, so it converts plain text and mail
messages to HTML before display). That's because
Composer is for writing webpages.
> 4) View > Page Info says: File Mime Type: message/rfc822. This Mime
> Type does not appear in Preferences > Navigator > Applications.
Right now Mozilla can't use an external mailer.
That may change.
> a) What is the official spec as to how a browser *should* display
> such a page?
I don't think there is such a spec. That is, I don't think
the relevant specs really cover display.
I would think that displaying as plain text would be
reasonable.
> b) Suppose I have a mail file, and want to post it on the web in
> the same way. How do I do it?
You'd have to configure your web server to serve
the document as message/rfc822. The easiest way
would probably be to give the file an extention like
.eml and configure the server to send all .eml files
with the message/rfc822 MIME type.
> c) Suppose I have a mail file, and want to convert it to html as
> in 3). How do I do it?
The process you used in (3) seemed to work out all
right.
