Re: emacs-w3m and mime.el

[Ushnish Basu <ubasu@ce.berkeley.edu>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I am trying to use emacs-w3m (mime-w3m.el) with mh-e for reading
>> MIME mail.
>
> Please don't add to the confusion.  emacs-w3m is for reading
> HTML documents.  Those can be embedded in email using MIME, but MIME can be
> used for many more things than just to embed HTML.
>

Certainly, I in fact meant HTML mail. 

> IIRC the MH-E included in Emacs-21.3 does not support MIME very well.
> I'd recommend you try the newer version at http://mh-e.sourceforge.net
> (it'll be included in the next Emacs release).
>

Thanks, I did download the latest mh-e. Also, thanks to the other poster for
suggesting flim.

> It'll still require emacs-w3m if you want it to display HTML parts of MIME
> mail, of course, but mime-w3m.el shouldn't be needed.
>
>
>         Stefan

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