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I seem to noticed that my old trusty mail viewing programs, such as
metamail, do not respond kindly to those mail messages that are part
plain text and part html (usualy an html version of the same text).
Since the multi-part header lines do not separate parts that are MIME
encoded, since there is no encoding to do, before sending the part to
a viewer- programs like metamail do not simply make the html part into
a tmp file and send it to the appropriate viewer (e.g., arachen).
Are there some more recent programs like metamail that DO know how to
respond to those dasterdly html versions of plain text?
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Howard Schwartz
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I've used metamail, but MPACK/MUNPACK seemed to work better. Maybe I missed
some things in metamail? With MUNPACK it helps if each part has a file name,
so if the main message or HTML part has no "name=" in the subheaders, I put a
DOS-compatible name there with a text editor, then MUNPACK will unpack and
translate the base64 or quoted-printable, but you need a Web browser to view
the HTML appropriately. Maybe adding "name=" in the subheaders, with a valid
file name, will work in metamail too?
