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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: elm
To: proot@iaces.com (Paul T. Root)
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In a previous message, Paul T. Root said:
> 
> Hi all, 
> 	I have a couple of questions on elm. I was using elm2.4ME+ PL32
> and just upgraded to PL49 because it won't start xv (or anything else)
> for image/jpeg or image/gif files. I'm running the same code on solaris
> boxes and can freely change from xv to gimp in my $HOME/.mailcap file
> and things just work fine. This is the error:
> 
> [image/jpeg is not supported, skipping...]
> [Use 'v' to view or save this part.]                 
> 
> 
> 	It correctly identifies a *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.gif, etc. as image/jpeg
> or image/gif. So /usr/local/lib/elm.mimetypes is working correctly. And I
> have:
> image/*; xv %s
> image/jpeg; xv %s
> 
> in my $HOME/.mailcap.
> 
> Any ideas.
> 
> Also, I just downloaded Elm 2.5.2. Is there a reason that 2.4ME+ is better
> than 2.5 or just that it hasn't made it into ports yet.

Well, I went ahead and complied 2.5 PL2 and it works as I want it.


> Please don't say "Use pine|netscape|mh|xmh|outlook|whatever, it's better". 
> I've tried many many many mailers, and after a week or two or three, I go
> back to elm. It's how I do mail.
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul.
> 
> 
> -- 
> "I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem."
>                 -- Ashleigh Brilliant
> 
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