Ian Little has his MIMEs in a mess...
> I finally managed to view picture attachments to e.mails by viewing
> them in Turboprint's Graphic Publisher. That won't be able to help
Gawd! What a nasty round about way of doing things! It can be much
easier than this.
> feeling that one should be able to view attachments via the
> appropriate MIME settings in MD2 itself. I just don't seem to get
You can. Assuming you did an automated install of MD2, not a manual
one, you should have your MIME prefs files in the right places. Go to
the MD2 menu "Settings->MIME Settings..." and you should get the MIME
types prefs editor, just like the one for Voyager.
Now, what you do with this is entirely up to personal preference. For
the sake of getting something to work, you could try the following:
Scroll down the list until you come to Type(s) "image/........"
For each type, highlight it and edit the buttons in the bottom to say
"Save and View", "Use Class Directory" (ticked), "Viewer" set to
"SYS:Utilities/Multiview %f screen" (or wherever you've got MV),
"Internal Viewer" NOT ticked.
For each specified type (eg. "image/jpeg") you can actually specify a
viewer which is better for you. Say you might want to use FJpeg for
those, in which case you can change the command line. You need to
have set the "extensions" field to detect the file type. Jpegs have
for example "jpg jfif jpeg". Note, no commas or dots, just spaces.
Any image type not specifed will try to use the "image/*" type
definition.
Exit the window by pressing Save.
You should now be able to look at a message with a picture attachment
and click on the button which says "View" at the bottom of the
message, where you've the choice between "Save" and "View".
You can then set up other things like text or wav or whatever with any
command line you want.
In case you've already done all that and it still doesn't work, you
have some big problem with the installation, or maybe the datatypes.
If so, let us know in more detail where it fails and I'm sure someone
can help.
Cheers,
Ian
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