Email MIME Test

This is a link to the Email test form .

The above form, after asking a few questions, will send you an email message containing a number of MIME types. For more information about the individual MIME types, select the individual element names from the Email test form.

If you receive a mail message using an encoding method that you don't understand then you can probably read it using one of the tools from all About Viewing web page. This page has decoders for MIME, UUENCODE, and Quoted Printable.

If you have problems looking at the data objects once you receive them then you need to configure your email package (there are UNIX, PC, and MAC sections):

• Unix systems:

  
  
  
  • UNIX running Zmail / MediaMail:
    
    Here is an example attach.types file ( usually /usr/lib/Zmail/attach.types ) and an example type-by-suffix file ( usually /usr/lib/Zmail/bin/type-by-suffix ).. Zmail does not presenly use the mailcap / mime.types files.
    

    See the Viewer Test Page for more information about these various formats.

    Also note that you may need to supply the complete paths to the viewers in question.
    
    
    

  • UNIX running Ishmail, metamail, elm, or pine:
    
    

    These mail programs use the standard mailcap file entries so see the appropriate Viewer Test Page section for the data types and configuration information. If you've already configured your system for your Web browser, then these email programs should work.

    For more information about Ishmail see this Ishmail site.

    For more information about metamail see this metamail site.

    For more information about elm see this elm site.

    For more information about pine see this pine site.

    
    
    
    
  • Suns running MMail:
    
    

    MMail, a WYSYWYG text composition, visualization and MIME mailer.

    1. Text organised in different fonts.
    2. Inline images (images mixed with text)

    Works onSuns/Sparcs with:

    Operatong System: SunOS 4.1.2 or greater, Solaris 2.1 or greater

    Window Manager: X11, OpenLook, Motif

    For more information about MMail, see the MMail Home Page, http://www.atelier.co.uk.

    For more information, please write to mmail@atelier.demon.co.uk

    MMail - Features:

    • WYSIWYG full text composition and visualization. (MIME/text/enriched or MIME/application/MMail)
    • Text Organization:
      1. Adjust to margins
      2. Line attributes (Left,Center,Right,Spread,Fixed)
      3. Images mixed within text delivered as multipart/mixed
    • IMAP2 interface (and IMAP4 when it becomes available)
    • Hyphenation (in 17 different languages)
    • Spell (via Unix spell)
    • Multiple fonts (ISO-8859-1)
    • MIME/attachments via mailcap to viewer
    • Alias and Group
    • Mail Box Filing/Editing
    • Ignored unwanted headers
    • Automatic File Carbon Copy
    • File Include (signature, template, image)
    • Message Find/Sort/Move/Delete/Udelete/History
    • Data Base of known MIME/MMail users
    
    
    
    

    Thanks go to Greg Hilton (greg@hal.com) for the Ishmail reference.

    Thanks go to Ben Whitaker (benw@chem.leeds.ac.uk) and Kris Boulez (Kris.Boulez@rug.ac.be) for the metamail and elm references. See the Chemically cognisant email page for more details.

    Thanks go to Martin R. Raskovsky (martin@atelier.demon.co.uk) for the MMail reference.
    
    
    

  • UNIX running something else:
    
    

  
  
  
  

• PC:

  
  
  
  • PCs running Eudora:
    
    

    For more information about Eudora see this Eudora site.

  • PCs running metamail:
    
    

    For more information about metamail see this metamail site.

    
    
    
  • PCs running Pine:
    
    

    You can also get a copy of Pine if you don't already have one. Note that Pine, although running under DOS or WINDOWS, has a DOS-ish interface.

    Thanks go to Kris Boulez (Kris.Boulez@rug.ac.be) and Ben Whitaker (benw@chem.leeds.ac.uk) for this info. See the Chemically cognisant email page for more details.

    
    
    
  • PCs running Mail-It:
    
    

    You can get more information about Mail-It.

    You can get the configuration information files MSGSTORE.PRF, RECV.PRF, and SEND.PRF.
    

    Thanks go to Bernard Blessington (B.Blessington@bradford.ac.uk) for this configuration information.

    
    
    
    
  • PCs running something else:
    
    

  
  
  
  

• Mac

  
  
  
  • Macs running Eudora:

    For more information about Eudora see this Eudora site.

    MacEudora understands many of the standard mappings. Mappings that Eudora does not understand may be added using ResEdit by following the instructions in Appendix G of the Eudora manual.

    For those wishing to add some of the chemical types to Eudora, get eu-plug.hqx and put it in the user's mail folder (after uncompressing it ofcourse).

    
    
    
  • Macs running something else:
    
    

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