Garth Wallace wrote:
> "hysterion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> > 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,
> > 2) If I save it (as source) and then open the file, it renders as
> > just plain text
> > 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.
Hey, thanks a bunch for these explanations, which clear it up a lot for
me. I'm still helpless about two things, however:
> > 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.
OK, so I should be able to do it from my home box running Apache. OTOH,
I just tried uploading it as .eml on a public site (homepage.mac.com,
where I'd rather have it), and as it turns out, their servers are not
configured the way you advise. :-(
Anyway, I guess the c) route below would be preferable, since as I
described, not all browsers will render this Mime type.(*) BUT:
> > 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.
The problem is, it can't get this to work! Whichever way I can think of
viewing a *local* mail file in Netscape, "Open in Composer" won't produce
the magic of 3). Instead I only get a dialog to navigate my drive, and
if I use that to go open the mail file, then only (essentially) plain
text appears. So, while Mozilla keeps cranking out nice html behind the
scenes (as you explain under 3), I can't seem to access it!
Bummer, because that would make it dead easy to upload nicely formatted
messages on the web. If anyone has a solution to that, I'd love to hear it.
hysterion
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(*) Just of curiosity, I wonder how IE or *standalone* Navigator render it,
given that what I get here depends on the _Messenger_ View settings. Can't
check myself as I have neither installed.
