[ale] MIME decoding question

[sspoon at clemson.edu (Lex Spoon)]

> I can't get 'pine' to recognize the encoding, nor to store a binary version
> of the item, much less view it.  How can I set up my mail reader to deal
> with encoded MIME attachments?  Earlier I had equally unsuccessful results
> with Netscape, which is why I installed 'pine'.  'View Attachment' brings
> a complaint from 'pine' that there is no attachment.
> 
> Pointers Right to The Fine Manual are definintely appropriate here.
> 


You ought to check out metamail.  It uses a config file to tell it how
to display different file types (eg, use xv for BMP files), and it
always gives you an option to save the raw data to a file so you can
deal with difficult things by hand.



lex