Re: Need a simple answer, decoding MIME messages

Larry Higgins (lhiggins@tbcnet.com)
Fri, 23 Aug 1996 21:43:55 -0500

Hello John,

>I am not using metamail, but what I have done is get the mime tools from
>University of Washington and in my yarn configuration file I just
>munpack %f and that seems to work just fine for decoding.

Could you please tell me where I can fine the mime tools? I looked on
both the www.cac.washington.edu, and ftp sites, but couldn't locate a
directory where they might reside.

>Maybe the bad commands and file names you are getting is because you
>have some things still not on your path -- check your yarn configuration
>file and batch files which it runs to make sure and make sure that
>metamail is installed correctly.

Well John, here are the lines that pertain to mime in my Yarn config
file.

# program that decodes MIME message
decode-mime=metamail %f

I don't know what this might mean, but I typed "metamail" from the
command line, and the program did nothing. My system didn't lock up, so
maybe it was doing just what it was supposed to do. I don't know just
what I was expecting, but that's what I got.

As I said, I have cshow.exe and list.exe in my c:\utils directory,
which is on my path. If there are other command line options or
settings that I should be including in a batch file, please let me know.

The only command in the batch file for calling Yarn, is as follows.

f:\yarn\yarnx %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

The only lines in my Yarn config file in my f:\larry\yarn directory is

# program that decodes MIME message
decode-mime=metamail %f

string variables

set yarn=f:\yarn
set home=f:\larry
SET TZ=CST6CDT
set mailcaps=f:\larry\yarn\mailcap

I will try almost anything to get this to work.

Thanks very much John for your help, and I'll be waiting to find out
where I can get those tools, ok?

Thanks again,

Larry