Sam Wrote:
> What version of PINE are you using? I use the DOS version and
> it does not "render" HTML attachments. Whenever I receive an
> HTML attachment with PINE, I save the attachment as a file.
> Later after I have quit PINE, I open the HTML file with Arachne.
> When using PINE, unless I were to save all my email messages as
> separate files, I don't know of any way to view these messages
> except with the built-in PICO editor program. If you have
> discovered a better and more versatile way of viewing your email
> messages with PINE, please let me know about it.
I do not know if this is a huge improvement, but the program uudeview
which you can get free from its website:
http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/
is a very intelligent decoder that deals with combination text, html
multi part messages. It finds them, even if not MIME decided and
lets you choose interactively to save them, delete parts, or run
a (viewer) command of your choice on each part. You can also preview
the part to see what you want to do with it. It also decodes other
formats like the Max binhex, quoted printable, uuencode, etc.
Its author has a new port of this software to just about every other
OS but Dos. You can get the older dos version, or, if you have the
C++ compiler get the unix version and compile it for dos. If anybody
does this I sure would like a copy.
For programs like yarn and readmail uudeview can be put in a setup file
and used as your standard decider. For other mailers, save the entire
message somewhere like same does, and then run uudeview on it to
dispose of/read the parts as you see fit.
Howard Schwartz
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theo "at" ncal.verio.com
