Re: Behaviour of tin with Attachments

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 11:51:51PM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> how can I change the behaviour of tin with news that contain attachments or
> gpg keys?
> 
> The default behaviour, at least with Suse10.1, is that at the bottom line 
> some choice is presented how to handle that attachment. Some explicit answer
> is needed, with some confirmation that I really want to abort the operation.
> This heavily disturbs the way I normally read news.
> 
> I would like to change this behaviour. Searching the the docs, I found
> nothing. 
> 
> I like the way Emacs VM handles attachments. Some special lines are
> displayed, but only if I go onto this special line I am asked something.
> 
> Any pointer to some configurable item?


[tin(5)]
|  /etc/tin/tinrc
|  ${TIN_HOMEDIR-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc
| [...]
|         Ask before using MIME viewer (ask_for_metamail)
|             If ON tin(1) will ask before using a MIME  viewer (meta-
|             mail_prog)  to display MIME messages. This only occurs if
|             a MIME viewer is set.  Default is OFF.
| [...]
|         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 manu-
|             ally view any attachments. See also ask_for_metamail.

I use

ask_for_metamail=ON
metamail_prog=
hide_uue=1

urs
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