Thanks to Era eriksson, Vincent Lefevre and Philip Guenther for attending
to my question.
However, due to various difficulties to get quick help from sys-admin, I
could not install METAMAIL, nor recompile elm.
The reason why I came to "strip" that paticular line was, I tested
mannually which line in the header cause my elm to "jam" on SOME mails
and subsequently picked up that "charset=iso-8859-1" thing (when the line
removed, elm reads the mail fine :) So I came to the idea to use formail
...
Acturally I am more interested in the procmail recipe in general: how an
action like this shall be passed to the rest recipes in procmailrc?
Thanks for reading this far (my boring elaboration :-)
Zhiliang
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Philip Guenther wrote:
Zhiliang Hu <hu(_at_)superprism(_dot_)net> writes:
The following line in the mail header:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
causes my elm not be able to display the mail:
sh: metamail: not found
Either a) install metamail; b) reconfigure and recompile elm to
understand that iso-8859-1 is displayable directly; or c) tell your
correspondant(s) to use the minimal charset (i.e., us-ascii) when
sending messages if the message doesn't have non-ascii characters.
Doing all three of those would be preferable.
Philip Guenther