Hi,
Stuart Ballard wrote:
> FWIW, I believe (and hope) that Mozilla doesn't care about the file
> extension at all, but goes by MIME type. So if you have control over the
> program that is *sending* the mail, you can send the file with the
> extension .nfo but MIME type text/plain, and Mozilla will display it
> just fine.
Yeah, but I sent a .nfo file to myself using Mozilla, and Mozilla didn't
display it correctly.
> Alternatively, you can set up a helper application for whatever MIME
> type *is* being sent (if this doesn't appear in the GUI, you can
> certainly see it in the View Source window of the email). Although this
When I selected 'view source', this showed that the NFO was encoded in
some form, it couldn't be directly read in the source.
If you need more info, let me know. It's possible that the .nfo
contained DOS linefeeds (I use Mozilla/Linux), maybe that confused Mozilla.
> would not enable you to view it inside Mozilla itself, you can assign
> that MIME type to run Notepad, for example (note: internally, this would
> download the file to a temporary location, but as far as the user is
> concerned, it would appear to just be viewing it).
I know that there are workarounds, but Netscape 4 shows that it's
possible to show these files inline, in the mail/news windows, without
any trouble and workarounds, so I don't see why Mozilla shouldn't be
able to do the same :)
bye,
Tillmann
