Re: decode in mail

[Alain Magloire]

Bonjour

> > An did a very quick and dirty implementation.
> > But any idea How handle mime, attachements etc ... ?
> 
> The first idea that comes to mind is the ability to store message
> parts in files, like this:
> 
>       decode MSG-NO PART [OUT-FILE]
> 
> Afterwards one would be able to view the part with an appropriate
> program..
> 
> Maybe we can also keep some kind of association table, for example:
> 
>       Content-Type        Program
>       ------------------    -------
>       application/x-gzip    gzip -d
>       text/html                   lynx
>       text/plain          <internal>
>       etc...
> 
> then, when one issues a  command like `decode 1 2' and there is an
> entry corresponding to the content-type of part 2, then the part 2
> is stored in a temporary file and the program listed in the entry is
> started with the filename as its argument. 

Ok, it sounds good.
The standard is mailcap and mime.types files for configuration, I would
advocate there use instead of reinventing new configuration/association files.

--
alain