🚀 go-pugleaf

Robert Mortimer wrote:
> 
> In demon.ip.support.pc Harry Broomhall <haeb@demon.net> wrote:
> : Terry Belton wrote:
> : > In article <33730F14.59E2@demon.net>,  wrote:
> : >  HB>    A good e-mail program should have automaticaly recognised it, so
> : >  HB> perhaps its time for him to look for one!
> : > For Dos?
> :    Hm - I must have missed that bit in the original query.
> : In general, as MIME handles many sorts of files, DOS readers have
> : a hard time dealing with the results. I have seen various attempts,
> : but most of them are pretty kludgy.
> 
> Have you tried metamail, the latest version of which has been ported
> to dos, by the authoer. Setting up the mailcap and so forth can be a
> pain, but an example mailcap and instructions come with pcelm in the
> DIS distribution.
> 

  It was metamail pricipaly that I had in mind.  I found it such a pain
to set up, and find readers/players for stuff that comes as standard
in Windows that I finaly 'bit the bullet' and moved to Agent.  This
was helped immensly by the arrival of POP3 on Demon.

   Regards,
      Harry.