[pmmail-list] Displaying HTML Messages
Mike Kilroy
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Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:34:50 -0500
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THANK YOU!!
works great!!
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:10:58 -0500, Wayne Dunham wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:56:38 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>>Some time ago, someone submitted a hint on how to configure PMMail to use
>>Internet Explorer as the "external editor" for read messages, so one could view
>>the dreaded HTML messages in a reasonable form.
>>
>>I have since learned of an alternative. Internet Explorer 5.x includes a
>>program called "mshta.exe" that is basically a very thin wrapper around the IE
>>browser control. It is designed for rendering HTA files (Hypertext
>>Applications), but it can render everything IE can. Further, it skips all the
>>menus and icons and toolbars and coolbars and rings and things and buttons and
>>bows, so unlike IE it starts up very quickly. It does support the right-click
>>interface, so you can still print the pages.
>>
>>I changed the Editor in Account -> Properties -> Editor to "c:\winnt\system32
>>\mshta.exe", and I'm quite happy with the results.
>>
>
> Works in Win98Se also. Looks like a great alternative. Hey, I'll
>actually be able to FIND the links in a message. In PmMails internal
>viewer (Windows) the clickable links are sometimes nowhere near the
>highlighted text in the message.
>
> Just don't forget that if your pathname that PmMail resides in has
>spaces in it to put quotes around that pathname, i.e. "E:\program
>files\PMMail\%s", in the arguments line. Strange, I had Notepad as my
>external editor before and it didn't need the quotes, but that program
>(and probably other externals) does/did.
>
>
>
> Wayne Dunham
> waynedunham@email.com
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<FONT FACE="Courier New" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10" DEFAULT="SIZE">THANK YOU!! <BR>
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works great!!<BR>
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:10:58 -0500, Wayne Dunham wrote:<BR>
<BR>
>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:56:38 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote:<BR>
><BR>
>>Some time ago, someone submitted a hint on how to configure PMMail to use <BR>
>>Internet Explorer as the "external editor" for read messages, so one could view <BR>
>>the dreaded HTML messages in a reasonable form.<BR>
>><BR>
>>I have since learned of an alternative. Internet Explorer 5.x includes a <BR>
>>program called "mshta.exe" that is basically a very thin wrapper around the IE <BR>
>>browser control. It is designed for rendering HTA files (Hypertext <BR>
>>Applications), but it can render everything IE can. Further, it skips all the <BR>
>>menus and icons and toolbars and coolbars and rings and things and buttons and <BR>
>>bows, so unlike IE it starts up very quickly. It does support the right-click <BR>
>>interface, so you can still print the pages.<BR>
>><BR>
>>I changed the Editor in Account -> Properties -> Editor to "c:\winnt\system32<BR>
>>\mshta.exe", and I'm quite happy with the results.<BR>
>><BR>
> <BR>
> Works in Win98Se also. Looks like a great alternative. Hey, I'll<BR>
>actually be able to FIND the links in a message. In PmMails internal<BR>
>viewer (Windows) the clickable links are sometimes nowhere near the<BR>
>highlighted text in the message.<BR>
><BR>
> Just don't forget that if your pathname that PmMail resides in has<BR>
>spaces in it to put quotes around that pathname, i.e. "E:\program<BR>
>files\PMMail\%s", in the arguments line. Strange, I had Notepad as my<BR>
>external editor before and it didn't need the quotes, but that program<BR>
>(and probably other externals) does/did.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> Wayne Dunham<BR>
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