Subject: How do I get pine to treat a mime type as text?

From: [email-masked] (Antonio Enrique Prats)
Date: 26 Jun 1996 17:01:32 -0400

My school (as many do) does not allow CGI access, so I've just had my 
forms mail the responses to me, and I just sort through the gobbledygook 
myself.  However, something must have changed, because I used to just be 
able to read the response right in pine, and now what I see is 
  
[Part 1, Application/X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED  86bytes]
  [Can not display this part. Use the "V" command to save in a file]

When I do that, it's just a simple text file as before.  Is there anyway 
to get pine to just display it, like it used to?  I haven't changed 
versions of pine, I'm sure it's just that some server software got 
upgraded or something like that.

Thanks,
Tony

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From: Andrej Borsenkow <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:07:33 +0400 (MOW)

Yes, I strongly support this.

Probably, a configuration parameter, which will list the MIME types to be
treated the same as TEXT.

The actual problem is, how such message should be terated when being
answered. Should the original type be retained, or converted to
TEXT/PLAIN? I am in favor of later.

greetings

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:00:49 +0100 (BST)

As of version 3.92 Pine supports "mailcap" files.  These tell programs ho
wo to display (compose, etc) items of a given MIME type.  You could set up
an entry in your systemwide or personal mailcap file for
"Application/X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED" to invoke a pager or editor to view
the item (it'll be a separate program rather than inside Pine itself).

Even better would be to use a program that decodes the WWW-FORM-ENCODING
and displays it in some mre meaningful way.

The hooks _are_ there; you just need to do a bit of research and fiddling
to get it working as you wish (but that's what using computers is all
about:-)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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