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Multipurpose Internet extensions (MIME)
allow email users to exchange non-ASCII textual messages and information
in message headers.
Click here
for detailed information on MIME. We address here just two points poping up
in daily life.
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How can I extract mail with attachements without having to use pine or
a Netscape mailer?
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On Unix use the CMU programs "mpack" and "munpack". (Look here
for a solution with "metasend" and "metamail"). For mpack on Macintosh, look
here .
An example how Alice (alice) writes to Bob (bob.org)
and sends him a jpg file photo.jpg.
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mpack -s "photo for you" photo.jpg bob.org
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Bob (bob.org) unpacks the file by saving Alice's email
first in a file "fromalice.tmp" and then uses the command:
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How do I configure Netscape so that it opens
a PDF,DVI or PS viewer automatically under Linux or Solaris?
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user_pref("helpers.private_mailcap_file", "~/.mailcap");
user_pref("helpers.private_mime_types_file", "~/.mime.types");
user_pref("mime.table.extension.ps.outgoing_default_typ", "application/x-ps");
user_pref("mime.table.extension.pdf.outgoing_default_typ", "application/pdf");
user_pref("mime.table.extension.dvi.outgoing_default_typ", "application/x-dvi");
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in ".mailcap", there should be
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application/x-dvi;xdvi %s
application/pdf;gv %s
application/x-ps;gv %s
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in ".mime.types", there should be
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type=application/x-ps desc="Postscript Document" exts="ai,eps,ps"
type=application/pdf desc="Portable Document Format" exts="pdf"
type=application/x-dvi desc="TeX Dvi file" exts="dvi"
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