"hysterion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Garth Wallace wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Yes, I understand that.... what I would like is to find a way around it.
> Can I somehow assign the file this MIME type on the Macintosh? Or if I
> just give its title an .eml extension, as you suggested, can I help
> Communicator guess the correct type by adding something in Edit >
> Preferences > Navigator > Applications ?
>
> Or are you saying that there.just.is.no.way.at.all?
I'm not sure if there is a way or not, sorry.
You might try the ".eml" thing. I doubt you
can assign it a MIME type in the filesystem
--that's usually something the web browser
handles.
