Re: Newbie on MIME posts

On 2004-06-08 12:07:24 -0400, Charles Gagnon wrote:
> Some of the "new" nntp servers I connect to seem to feed some kind
> of MIME type posts which I am sure look great on OE or Netscape but
> on my tin setup, they generate tons of prompts:
> 
>    View '/home/charlesg/News/unknown-000.plain' (text/plain)? (Y/n) Y
> If I say Yes I get:
>    No viewer found for text/plain
> SO I go No... I get:
>    Save '/home/charlesg/News/unknown-000.plain' (text/plain)? (y/N) N
> 
> And it starts again for unknown-001.html and so on...
> 
> Is there a quick way to pre-answer 'No' to all these questions to
> make newsreading a more pleasurable experience. What do I have
> mis-configured on my reader.

Searching tin's man-page for 'MIME' finds among other matches:
| Viewer program for MIME articles (metamail_prog)
|     Path, name and options of external metamail(1) program used to view
|     non‐textual  parts of articles.  To use the built‐in viewer, set to
|     --internal. This is the  default  value  when  metamail(1) is  not
|     installed.  Leave  it blank if you don’t want any automatic viewing
|     of non‐textual attachments. The ’V’ command can always be used  to
|     manually view any attachments.  See also ask_for_metamail.

Leaving this option should work (actually I don't have a MIME article to
verify it but I remember to leaving this option blank for the same
reason).

Michael