On September 1, 1998 at 14:12, "Anthony P. Kieran" wrote:
> Hello there, I have been using mhonarc to implement a small application at
> NASA HQ in Washington DC. Mhonarc has worked well, however, I get a
> problem when I try to attach an image (GIF FILE) when using Eudora as my
> email package. The image does not appear in the body of the message on the
> HTML page, but rather as a link to a binary file, which I can save to the
> desktop and open it later.
Because, the data was tagged with the wrong content-type. Look
at the original raw message, I bet you it was tagged with
application/octet-stream instead of image/gif.
> I was wondering if there was any way (through the use of filters) to have
> the intended attachment (whether it be a WAV file; GIF/image file; AVI file
> etc) to appear in the body of the HTML page as a thumbnail? I would
> especially like to have any GIF/image file appear as a thumbnail - Is this
> possible and if so, can you point me in the right direction to accomplish
> this.
Its possible, but you'll probably have to write one yourself (do not
know of any existing filters to do it -- I have not written one). The
main issue is performance. If updating archives as messages arive,
doing thumbnail type processing cause a significant performance hit. A
problem if there is frequent mail traffic.
If image data is labeled properly, MHonArc, by default, will in-line
GIFs, JPEGs, and XBM images (unless the disposition is "attachment").
--ewh
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