[pmmail-list] Reading Word Attachments with SmartSuite

[Carl Gehr]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Phil Kane wrote:

>
>  I am a long-time user of the OS/2 version of PMMail (PMMail/2).
>
>  I have no problem opening and reading text, PDF, and JPG attachments.
>
>  Occasionally, some benighted soul will send me a Word attachment
>  (.DOC suffix), which the program will not open even though I have
>  the MIME Settings set to call d:\SMARTSUITE\WORDPRO\WORDPRO.EXE %s
>  (where %s ix the file name).  This is the command that will bring up
>  the program and open the file from an OS/2 command-line window and
>  is exactly parallel to the entries which successfully open PDF and
>  JPG files.
>
>  The work-around is that I have to save the attached file as a .DOC
>  file in some TEMP directory. call up WordPro from the desktop, and
>  then open the file within same.
>
>  Has anyone been successful in setting PMMail/2 to open such Word
>  .DOC attachments with SmartSuite WordPro within PMMail/2?
>
>  WTIA
>
>--
>   Phil Kane

I resolved this by:

1) Removing the *.Doc pointing to *anything* from the PMMail/2
Settings.

2) Using Association Editor to set the SYSTEM default to set WordPro
for processing those files.

In fact, I have removed almost all of the MIME references and, in
general, things seem to work much better.

Carl
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