Re: mime and elm (was RE: X-wm question and ZipDrive)
> Hamish Moffat wrote:
> >Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either?
> >Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character terminal.
>
> Couldn't you pre-filter your email with procmail and a MIME extraction
> program? Maybe the packages mime-support (which `can be used to turn
> virtually any mail reader program into a multimedia mail reader') or
> mpack?
I'd love to. But this machine is not a Debian box, it's my
account at university running Solaris 5.5.1, and there's no procmail,
or munpack, etc. Only metamail, which isn't very friendly.
Unfortunately, I doubt my disk quota runs to a permanent copy of
procmail, which sounds quite featureful and therefore probably
quite large.
> After all, MIME is so well established and you're imposing the lowest
> common denominator on us.
True, but I see no advantage in sending absolutely plain text messages
as MIME when some people (such as me) will complain. When attachments
are involved, I agree, MIME simplifies things significantly
and metamail handles this adequately. Although I still use
Netscape when I'm trying to send file attachments.
A FreeBSD system I use has a special version of elm with native
MIME support. "ELM 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)" This would be nice on debian.
hamish
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