thanks a million earl. however, the battle is not yet over for me. by
making
the necessary changes that you recommended, i was able to solve the
visio
problem (and infact know how to handle file types whose
applicaiton/subtype i can
discover). however, when i get Framemaker and pdf attachments, then, in
Netscape
mail, this is how i see them:
in netscape mail:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: chap1.frm
Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
Encoding: base64
Name: ss5.pdf
Type: Adobe Acrobat (application)
Encoding: base64
how should i deal with pdf and frm files when their subtypes are either
not showing up (as in pdf) or its conflicting (as octet-stream is setup
in
mhexternal.pl for bin and framemaker files are coming in as octet
stream)
thanks very much. btw, i had been a hypermail user for a long time and
had not bothered to even check out mhonarc. but i chanced upon seing the
frame example of mhonarc and the scan and rmm option as well impress me
highly. i am finding mhonarc absolutely amazing and tremendously useful
for our project. thank you!
--
regards,
Pradeep Dev Pandey
TCSI: http://www.tcsi.com
Work: (510) 749-8608
Home: (510) 865-7238
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[try to keep correspondance to the mhonarc list]
1. i recieve the visio attachement correctly through my netscape
mail. there the attachment shows up as:
Name: netmodel.vsd
Type:
application/x-unknown-content-type-Visio.Drawing.4
Encoding: base64
2. so i thought that subtype of visio should be
"x-unknown-content-type-Visio.Drawing.4" and so added the following
line
to my mhonarc resource file: (the new/added line has been underlined)
<MimeArgs>
text/plain:quote maxwidth=78
image/gif:inline
image/jpeg:inline
image/x-xbitmap:inline
image/x-xbm:inline
</MimeArgs>
<MIMEFilters>
application/x-unknown-content-type-Visio.Drawing.4:m2h_external'filter
ext=vsd
type="Visio Document":mhexternal.pl
You are misusing the MIMEFilters resource. What you have above
will not work. The first line is okay, but the other 2 are bogus.
MIMEFilters just maps content-types to filters. Filter options
are specified by the MIMEARGS resource. Therefore, you want something
like the following:
<MIMEFilters>
application/x-unknown-content-type-Visio.Drawing.4:m2h_external'filter
</MIMEFilters>
<MimeArgs>
application/x-unknown-content-type-Visio.Drawing.4:ext=vsd type="Visio
Document"
</MimeArgs>
Hopefully this should do the trick.
--ewh
