"hysterion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Garth Wallace wrote:
>
> > "hysterion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> >
> > > 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!
That's because once you save it to disk, it's just a plain
text file. Since there's no MIME type associated with it,
the program can't tell that it's a mail message, and just
opens it as if it was a plain text file.
