Metamail 2.7 Release Notes

Table of Contents

  • What is Metamail?
  • Support Policy
  • Installation Information
  • Silicon Graphics Legal Notice
  • Author's Notice(s)
  • Documentation Information

    • What is Metamail?

    Metamail is an implementation of MIME, the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, a proposed standard for multimedia mail on the Internet. Metamail implements MIME, and also implements extensibility and configuration via the "mailcap" mechanism described in an informational RFC that is a companion to the MIME document.

    Author's Notice(s):

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    Installation Information

    Metamail includes these subsystems:
    fw_metamail.sw.metamail (default) Execution environment for the Metamail tools.
    fw_metamail.man.metamail (default) Metamail 2.7's online manual pages (preformatted).
    fw_metamail.man.relnotes (default) Lynx 2.4.2's online release notes.
    fw_metamail.src.metamail The complete Metamail 2.7 software distribution from which this product was built (including any SGI modifications).
    fw_metamail.src.contrib User-contributed software for use with Metamail. [Ed.: there is little here useful to IRIX users.]

    Installation Method

    All of the subsystems for Metamail can be installed using IRIX. You do not need to use the miniroot. Refer to the Software Installation Administrator's Guide for complete installation instructions.

    Prerequisites

    Your workstation must be running IRIX 5.3 or later in order to use this product.

    Configuration Files

    The following files are considered private to the target system and are not overwritten during the installation procedure; you may want to tailor them to your system's needs.
    /usr/freeware/etc/mailcap
    The default configuration information for the commands to use when displaying non-text content.

    Documentation Information

    Preformatted manual pages are installed by default; consult metamail(1) for an introduction.

    Drafts of the MIME and mailcap documents are available in the pub/nsb directory on thumper.bellcore.com. Other documents may also become available from time to time in that directory -- feel free to browse.

    The anonymous ftp directory from thumper is mirrored for the Scandinavian countries on ftp.funet.fi, where it can be found in /pub/unix/mail/metamail/