On 8/9/14 10:15 AM, Geoff Welsh wrote:
Trane Francks wrote:
On 8/9/14 6:14 AM, Geoff Welsh wrote:
Trane Francks wrote:
On 8/8/14 6:27 PM, Daniel wrote:
On 08/08/14 08:04, Trane Francks wrote:
On 8/8/14 6:57 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
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SeaMonkey knows quite well that EML is a mail file; forwarded mail
as an
attachment is in EML format. It appears simply that one cannot open
files from the command line in the mail component. Although SM takes
files on the command line, setting the -mail switch does not open the
EML file, it just opens the Mail window.
Just as a test, on my *Linux* SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroup screen, I
selected File->Open File... and pointed to an .eml file on one of my
Win7 drives and it opened in what looked sort of like a second Mail &
Newsgroups screen except it didn't have the Accounts or Threads Panes.
Is this what the OP was after??
File | Open File... opens EML files just fine. That is not what the OP
wants. He already knows about it and does that. He wants to be able to
open the EML file by double-clicking it from Windows Explorer.
.....and he was already told how.
GW
Except for the fact that it doesn't work. ;-)
SeaMonkey cannot open EML files in the Mail component via the command
line, only in the browser (which shows all the ugliness of the mail
headers). What the OP wants to accomplish cannot be done with SeaMonkey.
When I wrote my batch file idea, I thought SM would open files in the
mail window as it does in the browser window. It does not.
It was a nice idea, but FAIL.
really?....the OP said "Tranes's batch file approach did work with some
modifications. " on 8/7 (IDR how2 link by mssg-ID)
GW
Only to the point of successfully getting SeaMonkey to open its mail
window when double-clicking an EML file in Explorer. SeaMonkey does not,
unfortunately, display the EML file itself. As the OP subsequently posted:
I replied before I tested the batch file method by double-clicking a
.eml file. I set the batch file as the default program to open .eml
files. When I double-clicked a .eml file, it opened a Seamonkey Mail
window but not the .eml message. Is there some other parameter or
command I would need to add to the batch file to make Seamonkey Mail
open the .eml file I double-clicked?
I confirmed the unfortunate behaviour in SM on my Mac: One can open a
file from the command line in the browser, but the '-mail' switch seems
to not offer that ability with the Mail component. So, as I stated
several times now:
Opens EML file successfully in broswer: seamonkey.exe my.eml
ONLY opens Mail, _not_ EML file: seamonkey.exe -mail my.eml
So far, Ray_Net's suggestion to use Thunderbird seems to be the most
viable. Thunderbird will quite happily open/display EML files when asked
externally. Alternatively, use SM to view the EML file in the browser
(ugly headers and all).
Cheers to you, Geoff.
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