Subject: Hanlding Message/External-body MIME mail

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Daviel)
Date: 23 Feb 1995 23:16:42 GMT

I've got Pine 3.90, which handles my regular MIME needs OK (sending GIFs).
I recently subscribed to an IETF mailing list which is sending me MIME mail 
with the following kind of headers:
(leading "--" indented 1 space)

Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary="NextPart"
To: IETF-Announce: ;
X-Status: D

 --NextPart

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
... etc.

 --NextPart
Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="OtherAccess"

 --OtherAccess
Content-Type:  Message/External-body;
        access-type="mail-server";
        server="[email-masked]"

Content-Type: text/plain
Content-ID: <[email-masked]>

ENCODING mime
FILE /internet-drafts/draft-simpson-icmp-domain-name-00.txt

 --OtherAccess
Content-Type:   Message/External-body;
        name="draft-simpson-icmp-domain-name-00.txt";
        site="ds.internic.net";
        access-type="anon-ftp";
        directory="internet-drafts"

Content-Type: text/plain
Content-ID: <[email-masked]>

 --OtherAccess--

 --NextPart--

Pine says 
Parts/attachments:
   1   Shown   58 lines  Text                                                 
   2.1   OK   156 bytes  Message                                              
   2.2 Shown   78 bytes  Message                                              

then [Can't display first non-text segment]
if I try to access the messages. If I save the message to a new empty folder
then run metamail on it it is dealt with nicely.

Does Pine 3.91 support this stuff? Should I move to elm+metamail ?

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:25:27 -0800 (PST)

I'm having a hard time remembering whether or not this was broken in 3.90 
or not and it probably isn't worth figuring it out.  With 3.91 this 
should work fine as long as you have a properly configured mailcap (which 
I think you must or metamail wouldn't work).  I just tried it on one of 
the Internet-draft messages.  I viewed the message, then pressed View 
again to go into the attachment viewer, then moved down to 2.2 and 
pressed View again.  This spawned the showexternal program which is what 
is configured in our mailcap file for message/external-body.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle