Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!pipex!not-for-mail From: tim@pipex.net (Tim Goodwin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: comp.mail.mime frequently asked questions list (FAQ) (2/3) Supersedes: Followup-To: comp.mail.mime Date: 21 Mar 1994 19:52:05 -0000 Organization: Pipex Ltd., 216 Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, England Lines: 1075 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: 14 May 1994 19:51:54 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tank.pipex.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: message/partial; number=2; total=3; id="" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Summary: This posting contains answers to some of the Frequently Asked Questions about MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). Please read it before posting a question to comp.mail.mime. Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu comp.mail.mime:2931 comp.answers:4275 news.answers:16701 Archive-Name: mail/mime-faq/part2 Last-modified: 1994/02/10 Version: 3.4 comp.mail.mime frequently asked questions list (FAQ) (2/3) Part II -- MIME products This is part II of a Frequently Asked Questions document about MIME, the multipurpose and multi-media standard for Internet mail. Part I covers frequently asked questions. Part II is a listing of MIME products. Part III covers advanced topics. 7 Freely available MIME software packages Name: Andrew Product: Multimedia system Platform: Unix FTP: Author: Comments: [ Susan Straub 11-Jan-1993 ] Andrew is a very large and ambitious software system developed at Carnegie Mellon University. It is installed at hundreds of sites throughout the world, and includes a multimedia document editor, help system, and various other utilities. In particular, it includes a feature-rich program, "messages", which can read and send mail and news articles in MIME format, including images, audio, richtext, and more. Andrew is available in binary release for several Unix system architectures, and also in source form. Be warned that the source distribution is itself about 50 megabytes, but you really are getting a LOT of stuff. For information on how to obtain a copy of Andrew, send mail to info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu. Name: c-client Product: MUA library code Platform: Unix, Macintosh, MS-DOS, TOPS-20 FTP: Author: Mark Crispin Comments: [ comp.mail.misc FAQ ] Software writers only: c-client is a general library useful for creating MUA's. It provides a Application Program Interface for retrieving and manipulating mail messages. It supports the latest draft of MIME. It is driver based, and easily ported to new platforms and MTAs. The currently supported platforms include various versions of BSD and SysV Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh and even TOPS-20(!). It supports mailboxes in /usr/spool/mail, mbox, mail.txt, mh, carmel format, as well as remote mailbox access via the IMAP2 protocol described in RFC-1176 and extended by the IMAP2bis extensions. c-client does not contain any user interface. Rather, it contains everything else that goes into an MUA. c-client is called with such functions as mail_open(), mail_fetchheader(), mail_setflag(), etc. Just the thing if you want to write a new MUA. Contact the author (Mark Crispin ) for more details. Name: elm Product: MUA Platform: Unix FTP: Author: Comments: [ Syd Weinstein 21-Dec-1992 ] Elm support for MIME: 2.3 - uses metamail supplied patch from Nathaniel Borenstein. 2.4: reading: detects MIME headers and calls metamail automatically if the message cannot be displayed on the current screen using the native capabilities of the display (recognizes some char sets as native) sending: detects [include ] markers and makes them MIME attachments. Still very 'crude', but its all we had time for, as to the release deadline of 'Elm' and MIME. 3.x: reading: probably no change from 2.x, but will understand some 'file storage' types and allow for splitting off attachments on their own. sending: will allow defining attachments to be added and auto build the MIME stuff, in addition to the [include ] syntax. release status: 2.3: obsolete 2.4: Current PL is 23. 3.x: not planned until some time in 1994. Name: emil Product: tool Platform: Unix FTP: ftp.uu.se:pub/unix/networking/mail/emil FTP: ftp.sunet.se:pub/unix/mail/emil Author: Martin Wendel Comments: [ Martin Wendel 8-Nov-1993] Emil is a tool for converting between message formats used by MIME, Eudora, SUN mailtool, PC and Mac based clients, etc. It is easily extensible. It can work either standalone, as an argument driven filter program, or, if linked with sendmail8.6. or IDA sendmail, as a mail gateway convertering messages sent between various types of Internet mail clients. It will give a possibility to convert encoding formats of attachments and convert character sets of text. It can make a heterogenous mail environment, consisting of various types of mail clients, act as a homogenous environment; for instance sending only MIME based messages to the outside world. Name: encdec Product: tool Platform: ISO C FTP: ftp.efd.lth.se:pub/mail/encdec.c.gz Author: Joergen Haegg Comments: encdec is a simple standalone encoder/decoder for base64 and quoted printable written in ISO C. Name: Eudora 1.4 Product: MUA Platform: Macintosh MS-Windows FTP: qualcomm.com:mac/eudora/1.4/Eudora1.4.sea.hqx FTP: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:computing/systems/ibmpc/windows3/winsock/eudora14.exe Author: Steve Dorner Comments: Eudora 1.4 is a MUA for Macs and PCs that uses POP3 and SMTP and supports MIME. A commercial version is also available: see the next section. Name: HUyMail Product: MTA/MUA Platform: VMS FTP: ftp.technion.ac.il:pub/unsupported/vms/local/local/huymail*.bck Author: Yehavi Bourvine Comments: [ Yehavi Bourvine 22-Jul-1993 ] HUyMailer is a store and forward mailer for VAX/VMS and AXP/VMS systems which supports as transports: DECnet, Multinet/TcpIp, HUJI-NJE and PMDF. The software is available freely for non-commercial use as a C source code. The mailer supports two users' interfaces: VMS/MAIL (to which the connection is done via MAIL11 DECnet connection) or a locally written interface called BMAIL. BMAIL is a menu oriented interface which supports MIME and Hebrew. Name: Iride Product: MUA Platform: Macintosh FTP: gnbts.univ.trieste.it:mime/Iride.sea.hqx Author: GNBTS Comments: [ From the README ] Iride is (or will be -- it's currently in beta test) an implementation of a MIME user agent on the Apple Macintosh computer. It was developed as part of a project of the GNBTS - Gruppo Nazionale Bioingegneria sezione di Trieste, for the integration of multimedia mail with hospital data storing facilities, in particular for the transfer of bioimages. This is a far from a complete MIME implementation, but I think it is quite usable. To use it you need: o Macintosh with MacTCP 1.1 or better installed o 32 bit ColorQuickDraw if you want to use images o audio input device if you want to create audio messages o connection to a SMTP mail relay o connection to a POP3 server MIME types supported: text/plain charset=US-ASCII only text/richtext (no tool for composing richtext yet) audio/basic audio/X-macaudio generated when a NOT sampled audio pasted in image/GIF image/X-macPICT generated when color QuickDraw is missing only multipart/mixed each part is shown in a different window MUST change this multipart/parallel multipart/alternative handled as multipart/mixed MUST change this Name: metamail Product: MUA and tools Platform: Unix Amiga MS-DOS FTP: thumper.bellcore.com:pub/nsb/mm.2.6.tar.Z The metamail distribution that Nathaniel Borenstein supports. FTP: thumper.bellcore.com:pub/nsb/contrib2.6.tar.Z Contributed sources. FTP: thumper.bellcore.com:pub/nsb/amiga2.5.tar Amiga binaries and utilities FTP: thumper.bellcore.com:pub/nsb/dos2.5.tar.Z MS-DOS binaries Author: Nathaniel Borenstein Comments: [ Paul Eggert ] Metamail is a software implementation of MIME, designed for easy integration with traditional mail-reading interfaces -- typically, users do not invoke metamail directly. Ideally, extending the local email or news system to handle a new media format is a simple matter of adding a line to a mailcap file. Mailcap files are described in RFC 1343. Name: MH 6.8 Product: MUA Platform: Unix FTP: ftp.ics.uci.edu:pub/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z FTP: louie.udel.edu:portal/mh-6.8.tar.Z Author: Comments: MIME support is available for the MH message handling system; the primary reader and generator is the program mhn(1) although other MH programs are also changed. The current release of MH is 6.8, the first to include MIME support when appropriately installed. mhn does not use the mailcap mechanism described in RFC 1343. A tutorial for mhn is available: FTP: ftp.ics.uci.edu:mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.tex, .sty, .ps See the newsgroup comp.mail.mh for further information. Name: MIME for VM/CMS Product: Platform: VM/CMS FTP: { gopher, see comments } Author: Comments: [ Rick Troth 21-Jul-1993 ] This MIME decoder is available via Gopher from ricevm1.rice.edu under "Other freely distributable CMS software", which is under "CMS Gopher Software". It correctly reads: o text/plain, o text/richtext, and o image/gif. GIFs require the VMGIF package from Belgium. I need filters for PBM and PGM and then they'd work too. Sounds are not useful on the standard 3270 terminal (dumb terminals just don't play sounds). It splits out multipart/[anything] into separate files. CMS has a standard directory "browser" (FILELIST) that lets you view a bunch of related files and decide what, if anything, you want to do with them. Message/external-body doesn't work well, but probably will given more development time. I could use some samples to help with the debugging of that part. It does NOT do applications, except for the one, octet-stream. (which is treated as a kind-of "sendfile" utility) There *is* a PostScript interpreter for CMS, but it is reported to be a dog (we don't have it). But I do hope to put the extraction code in for these eventually. If a given content-type isn't understood, you just view the item as-is. For composition, there's no CHARSET= parameter on the Content-Type: text/plain line. It's EBCDIC until it gets into SMTP, then it's ASCII, then it might be anything, so I've left off the CHARSET= parameter. An "attach" command is added to RiceMAIL when you run this, which would then change the message from text/plain to multipart/mixed and append the attachment after a boundary. Attachments don't "close" properly; that is, the final boundary isn't correct, but is correctly processed by all of the MIME compliant readers I've checked. (there's some feature of RiceMAIL that causes this) This thing is based on CMS Pipelines, so adding features is easy since we now have the base for MIME processing. Name: MIME tools for GNU Emacs Product: MUA Platform: FTP: wnoc-fuk.wide.ad.jp:pub/GNU/etc/emacs-mime-tools.shar Author: Masanobu UMEDA Comments: [ Masanobu UMEDA 07-Aug-1993 ] MIME tools that consist of "mime.el", "rmailmime.el" and "metamail.el" are tools for reading and composition of MIME messages for GNU Emacs and its variants. "mime.el" is a simple MIME message composer that works with mail mode, news mode, and mhe letter mode. Messages of plain and richtext text, audio, and image, and multipart messages of them can be composed by using "mime.el". "rmailmime.el" is for reading MIME messages within Rmail. "metamail.el" is an interface to metamail. The metamail package is required by these tools. Name: MIME tools for NeXT Product: editor Platform: NeXT FTP: Author: Dave Lacey Comments: [ Dave Lacey ] I'd like to keep you apprised of some MIME work I'm doing. I'm interested in using MIME as a transport medium for multi-media gopher documents. My particular use is for Radiology info, but it would work for just about anything. I've got a NeXT Gopher client almost working and I also have a NeXT based MIME file editor that reads/creates MIME documents. Both work, but need a bit more extension. I will likely distribute the source to this, so the MIME reader (which is essentially an object) can be re-used in other apps. Name: MIXMH Product: MUA Platform: Unix with X FTP: aun.uninett.no:pub/unix/mixmh-0.2.tar.Z Author: Comments: [ Harald Tveit Alvestrand 10-Dec-1992 ] This version is based on XMH version 1.6 from SEI, Carnegie Mellon. It supports sending MIME with extended character sets in the headers (per RFC 1342) and the body (per RFC 1341 text/plain). It has limited support for multipart messages. The source is freely redistributable and modifiable. As you can see from the version number, it is still not considered fully stable. Bugs may be reported to mixmh-bugs@uninett.no Information and discussion will take place on mixmh-info@uninett.no; mail to mixmh-info-request@uninett.no to join. Name: mpack Product: MUA/utility Platform: Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Amiga FTP: export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-src.tar.Z Sources for all versions except Amiga FTP: export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-src-amiga.tar.Z Additional sources for Amiga FTP: export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-pc.tar.Z MS-DOS binaries FTP: export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-mac.hqx Macintosh binary FTP: export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-amiga.lha Amiga binaries Author: John Gardiner Myers, Chris Newman (Mac), Mike Meyer (Amiga) Comments: [ John Gardiner Myers 2-Oct-1993 ] Mpack is a minimal implementation of MIME, designed for encoding and decoding binary files in MIME messages. In short, it is the MIME equivalent of uuencode and uudecode. For backwards compatibility, it can also decode messages in split-uuencoded format. Name: Pegasus mail Product: Platform: MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Macintosh FTP: risc.ua.edu:pub/network/pegasus/* Author: David Harris Comments: [ James Ford 2-Nov-1993 ] Pegasus Mail is an Email package for Novell network v2.15 and higher that supports MHS (natively) and SMTP. The MS-DOS version (v3.01a) is MIME compliant; the MS-Windows version should be by mid-November. I do not know the timetable for the Mac version. You can either get a PC-based SMTP gateway for it (Charon, by Brad Clements) or a (Netware v3.11) NLM-based version (Mercury, by David Harris) from risc.ua.edu. I believe that the SMTP gateway Mercury supports 8-bit MIME encoding. Name: Pine Product: MUA Platform: Unix FTP: pine.cac.washington.edu:mail/pine.tar.Z Full distribution, including Pico and IMAPd Binaries also available in the same directory Author: Laurence Lundblade, Michael Seibel, Mark Crispin Comments: [ From the release notes 21-Sep-1993 ] Pine(tm) --a Program for Internet News & Email-- is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. It was designed specifically with novice computer users in mind, but can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well. Pine uses Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC-822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, NNTP) and runs on Unix and MS-DOS. The guiding principles for Pine's user-interface were: careful limitation of features, one-character mnemonic commands, always-present command menus, immediate user feedback, and high tolerance for user mistakes. It is intended that Pine can be learned by exploration rather than reading manuals. Feedback from the University of Washington community and a growing number of Internet sites has been encouraging. Pine's message composition editor, Pico, is also available as a separate stand-alone program. Pico is a very simple and easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a spelling checker. 7.1 Conversions from other mail systems A number of older email systems have defined ad hoc ways of dealing with binary file enclosures and multipart messages. This section is a pointer to some tools that would aid in transition efforts to the standard MIME approach. Name: n2m Product: conversion tool Platform: NeXT FTP: nexus.yorku.ca:pub/n2m.shar Author: Comments: [ Dave Collier-Brown 04-Jan-1993 ] Nn2m is a program that converts a file containing a NeXT-format multimedia message into a file containing a MIME-format multimedia message. It is usable on Berkeley-derived systems, or ones otherwise using /usr/lib/sendmail as a mail transfer agent. It is in use on SunOS 4.1.1 and Ultrix 4.2, tested briefly on Aix 3.2 and NeXT. Description: it is used with non-NeXT mail user agents to convert NeXT mail to MIME, which is intelligible to more than just the NeXT mail program. The resulting file will usually be more intelligible to non-multimedia mail user agents. The textual part of the mail is converted into text, as well as Microsoft RTF, and the attachments follow, as text/plain wherever possible, as base64 encoded binaries otherwise. This suffices for messages with ASCII files pasted into them. Caveat: This is a converter, not a translator: the conversion of sound and of the initial ``index.rft'' file is not correctness- preserving. Name: sun-to-mime Product: conversion tool Platform: OpenWindows FTP: cs.utk.edu:pub/MIME/sun-to-mime.perl FTP: cs.utk.edu:pub/MIME/sun-to-mime.c Author: Keith Moore Comments: [ Keith Moore 27-Dec-1992 ] A perl script (and conversion to C of same) that converts OpenWindows mail to MIME. Body parts currently supported are: text, gif, Sun rasterfile (converted to image/gif), postscript, and audio. Other types default to application/octet-stream. It's easy to extend the set of types supported and to add conversions, if necessary. The script requires uuencode, uudecode, zcat (aka uncompress), and the "convert" program from ImageMagick. If you don't have ImageMagick you can probably substitute the pbm stuff with little fuss. Name: uu-to-mime Product: conversion tool Platform: perl FTP: cs.utk.edu:pub/MIME/uu-to-mime.perl Author: Keith Moore Comments: A perl script that translates an RFC 822 message containing a single uuencoded file to a MIME message containing a base64-encoded file. 8 Commercial MIME software packages Name: ECSMail Product: MUA/MTA Platform: Unix, NT, OS/2, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Mac System 7 Contact: ECS Sales Phone: +1 403 420 8081 Author: Comments: [ Steve Hole 24-Aug-1993 ] ECSMail is an electronic mail product for building enterprise mail systems. It is designed from start to finish as a system for establishing mail services throughout an organization, with external organizations and the world information system in general. It does this by using a completely standards based architecture. ECSMail is comprised of the following system components: ECSMail MUA Set - a set of Mail User Agents (MUA) ECSMail MTA Set - a set of Message Transport Agents (MTA) ECSMail MS Set - a set of Message Services (MS) All components support both MIME/822 and X.400, and run under Unix, Microsoft NT, OS/2, OpenVMS. Additionally, the MUA Set runs under MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac System 7. Pricing for the ECS products and ISA business information can be obtained by contacting: ECS Sales 835 10040 - 104 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 0Z2 Phone: 403-420-8081 Fax: 403-420-8037 or by sending a request through electronic mail to the address: ECS Sales Name: Eudora 2.0 Product: MUA Platform: Macintosh Contact: eudora-sales@qualcomm.com Author: Steve Dorner Comments: A commercial version with more features than the freely available one. For pricing information, see FTP: qualcomm.com:/mac/eudora/E_by_QC.sea.hqx Name: IBM multimedia mail Product: Platform: OS/2 Contact: Jerry Cuomo Author: IBM Comments: [ Larry Salomon Jr 10-Dec-1992 ] I'm not going to follow this group, but I wanted to state that IBM - at the T.J. Watson Research Center - is developing a multimedia mail application for OS/2 which is based on the Mime spec. They demoed it at Interop. For more information, including (probably) how to become a test site (I haven't confirmed whether they're actually going to do this, but they've done it before), contact the department manager, Jerry Cuomo, at gcuomo@watson.ibm.com. Name: iGate Product: WordPerfect Office gateway Platform: Contact: smart@actrix.gen.nz Author: Smart Systems Comments: [ Quentin Smart 25-Sep-1993 ] iGate provides seamless conectivity to SMTP mail from WordPerfect office. Running as a native gateway under the Office Connection server and incorporting a TCP/IP stack iGate is a complete solution with no extras like MHS or TCP/IP stacks required. Further information from: Smart Systems PO Box 5017 Wellington, New Zealand +64 6 3561484 smart@actrix.gen.nz Name: Internet Exchange for cc:Mail Product: cc:Mail to SMTP/MIME Internet Mail Gateway Platform: MS-Windows Contact: Phone: +1 415 871 4045 Author: International Messaging Associates Comments: [ Tim Kehres 08-Dec-1993 ] For cc:Mail users, Internet Exchange is the gateway of choice to provide standardized full multimedia connectivity between cc:Mail users and their Internet partners. Internet Exchange for cc:Mail can be used to interconnect cc:Mail networks with external users on the Internet as well as connecting your own internal network to your cc:Mail community. Internet Exchange for cc:Mail is the first SMTP to cc:Mail gateway that suports the full MIME Internet standard for exchanging rich media multipart messages. This means that your cc:Mail users can now exchange any attachment types with Internet based mail systems. By using the MIME standard, Internet Exchange for cc:Mail users will be assured future compatibility with other MIME compliant mail gateways. To simplify administration and management, the Internet Exchange System Manager runs under Windows 3.1. On screen buttons provide administration access into the gateway operations. Managers can easily view and modify all gateway activity. Message routing is accomplished using any combination of host tables,Domain Name System (DNS) lookup, and default mail host routing. Name: Mail*Hub Product: Platform: Control Data 4000 Series Mips-based Unix systems Contact: rrr@svl.cdc.com Author: Control Data Systems Comments: [ 23-Dec-1992 ] Mail*Hub includes support for X.400, X.500, SMTP, and creating, viewing, and sending MIME enclosures in mail. In addition, the Fax Gateway portion of Mail*Hub supports sending mail with MIME enclosures to a Fax machine. Graphical MIME components (Postscript, GIF, TIFF,...) are automatically recognized and imaged at the receiving Fax machine. Name: Mail-it Product: MUA Platform: MS-Windows Contact: mail-it@unipalm.co.uk Phone: +44 223 250100 Author: Unipalm Ltd Comments: [ Tom Kermeen 11-Aug-1993 ] Mail-it is a mail user agent for Windows 3.1. Implemented using the Microsoft Extended MAPI architecture and with MIME functionality added in, Mail-it v2.0 has a wide range of features including: full drag and drop; hierarchical foldering; interaction with mail-aware and mail-enabled applications (MAPI); full MIME support; local address book; access to MAPI-enabled directory services; support for SMTP, POP2, POP3, and UUCP; Currently in beta, Mail-it v2.0 will ship in Q4 93. For further information email mail-it@unipalm.co.uk. Name: MEUF Product: MUA Platform: Unix/X Contact: Author: Daniel Glazman Comments: [ Daniel Glazman 30-Aug-1993 ] Meuf is a student project (now 2 years old) I developed at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris with the System staff. It has grown A LOT to become a MIME-native MUA running under Xt/Xaw. Earlier non-MIME versions (1.3 and 1.4) are available by anonymous ftp from ftp.inria.fr and ftp.enst.fr. They are used by at least 4 industrial and academic sites in France. Meuf full-MIME version is currently in beta-test and may become a commercial product. Name: MPOWER Product: Platform: Contact: Author: HP Comments: [ Harald Alvestrand 22-Jan-1993 ] If anyone is interested, the new multimedia product from HP called MPOWER supports MIME format mail. You can drag and drop a picture onto the mail icon, and it will be sent as a MIME message. (Unfortunately, they forgot to quote the delimiter that had a dot in it, and PINE failed to parse that......well, it's a betatest.) Name: PC-MM (PC Mail Manager) Product: MUA Platform: MS-Windows Contact: Lars_Hagberg@li.icl.se Author: ICL Comments: [ Tomas Kullman 30-Sep-1993 ] PC-MM from ICL is a Mail User Agent for Windows 3.1 implemented on Windows Socket API and TCP/IP. PC-MM is currently working on PC-NFS but is designed to be network software independent (i.e. will work on most TCP/IP softwares supporting WinSocket API). PC-MM is a MIME conformant internet mailer supporting SMTP and IMAP2 for sending and receiving. PC-MM requires a UNIX mail server (or similar supporting SMTP and IMAP2). PC-MM V1.0 supports a lot of nice features, such as: - user friendly interface - built-in and user-defined text editor - drag and drop between folders - local and server based folders - integrated address book - message sorting and tagging - "watch dog" for incoming messages PC Mail Manager is announced and volume shipping mid November 1993. For pricing and product packaging information please contact Lars Hagberg at ICL ProSystems AB; E-mail: Lars_Hagberg@li.icl.se or phone: + 46 (0)13 11 70 00. Name: PMDF Product: MTA Platform: VMS Contact: sales@innosoft.com service@innosoft.com Author: Innosoft International Comments: The VMSNET newsgroup 'vmsnet.mail.pmdf' is available for discussion. [ Ned Freed ] Send technical inquiries to service@innosoft.com. Product information, pricing, and literature can be obtained from sales@innosoft.com. The phone number is (909) 624-7907; FAX is (909) 621-5319. Street address is: Innosoft International, Inc. 250 W. First St., Suite 240 Claremont, CA 91711 Name: PP Product: MTA Platform: Unix Contact: Author: Comments: PP is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), kindof son-of-MMDF-plus-X.400. It is built on ISODE. [ Harald Alvestrand 18-Dec-1992 ] The ISODE Consortium release of PP will in the near future support gatewaying between MIME and X.400 according to the MIME-MHS Internet-Drafts. It will also support ESMTP. Name: SMTPLINK 2.1 Product: Platform: Contact: Author: Comments: [ 16-Dec-1992 ] Because this version (2.1) is a 2-3 QTR-93 release you should be talking to your sales rep about the tentative features of this product. They can be reached at 800-448-2500. Name: STI Document Browser Product: MS-Windows 3.1 (shipping), NeXTstep/X11/VMS (in the pipeline) Platform: Contact: info@sti.fi Author: Stream Technologies Inc Comments: [ Ed Anselmo 31-Dec-1992 ] Product name: STI Document Browser Platforms: How and where to get: Stream Technologies Inc. Valkjarventie 2 SF-02130 Espoo FINLAND Tel: +358 0 43577340 Fax: +358 0 43577348 Email: info@sti.fi Name: Super-TCP Product: Platform: MS-Windows Contact: TCP@FrontierTech.COM Author: Frontier Technologies Comments: [ Ray C Langford 28-Apr-1993 ] Frontier Technologies' Super-TCP for MS-Windows includes MIME support in their Email mail system that is a part of the Super-TCP for Windows package. Super-TCP for Windows is a Windows Sockets compliant, 100% DLL implementation that can also operate in a TSR mode. Applications include: Network News Reader, Telnet, FTP Client/Server, NFS Client/Server, SMTP/POP2&3 MIME Email, Telnet Redirector, Interactive Talk, and more. Options are also available for PPP, X.25, and OSI. With the MIME support in Email, any type of binary file may be attached to your message, including Postscript files, spreadsheet files, database files, word processor files, graphic files, audio files, and digital video files. The packages in the Super-TCP product line that include the Email (SMTP/POP2&3) with MIME support are: - Super-TCP for Windows Version 3.0 (Complete TCP/IP package) - Super-TCP/NFS for Windows Version 3.0 (Complete TCP/IP package with NFS client/server) - Super-TCP Applications for Windows Version 3.0 (Windows Sockets applications only) For further information, email TCP@FrontierTech.COM or call +1 414 241-4555. Name: Z-Mail Product: MUA Platform: Unix Contact: info@z-code.com Author: Z-Code Software Corporation Comments: [ Carlyn M. Lowery 29-May-1993 ] Z-Mail, a Unix World Magazine "Product of the Year" winner for 1991, is a complete electronic mail system for workstations. Z-Mail provides Motif and Open Look graphical user interfaces, as well as two character modes. The software has been ported to nearly every system that runs Unix, and it works with all standard Unix mail transport agents including sendmail, binmail, smail, MMDF and X.400 gateways. Z-Mail can replace or coexist with standard mail user agents on the system, including BSD Mail, AT&T mailx, Sun Mail Tool, Elm, or Mush. Most anyone can use Z-Mail "off the shelf" and immediately benefit from its simple interface and advanced features. Z-Mail also includes Z-Script, a powerful scripting language that enables users to customize and extend Z-Mail's capabilities. Z-Mail's multi-media capabilities allow easy integration with best-of-class products including spreadsheets, desk-top publishing, graphics, fax, voice, and video. For example, when users receive a spreadsheet file, Z-Mail can be configured to automatically launch the associated application and load the the attachment automatically and transparently to the user. Z-Mail understands MIME-format documents and is also compatible with Sun's multimedia Mailtool. Mac, MS-DOS, and MS-Windows versions, as well as native MIME support, are planned for this summer. For more information on Z-Mail, contact: Z-Code Software Corp. 4340 Redwood Hwy., Suite B-50 San Rafael, CA 94903 tel: (415) 499-8649 fax: (415) 479-0448 e-mail: info@z-code.com Also, you can anonymous-ftp a demo copy of Z-Mail from "ora.com" in the directory pub/z-code/zmail/2.1. (The file you want is named zm.XXX.tar.Z, where XXX is your type of machine.) You'll need to call us after you do so we can send you an activation key. 9 MIME and Usenet news 9.1 Introduction Usenet articles are (by design) very similar to RFC 822 mail messages. It is therefore reasonable to expect MIME software to be adopted for use on Usenet. 9.2 News readers and transports with MIME support Name: GNUS Product: reader Platform: GNU Emacs FTP: Author: Masanobu UMEDA Comments: [ Masanobu UMEDA 07-Aug-1993 ] GNUS is an NNTP-based newsreader for GNU Emacs. GNUS versions 3.14.4 and later directly support reading of articles written in MIME format. It only requires the metamail package. Compositions of articles written in MIME format requires "mime.el" that is a part of MIME tools for GNU Emacs (see 3.13). Name: gnus-mime.el Product: reaJoe Ilacqua der Platform: GNU Emacs FTP: world.std.com:dist/gnus-mime.el.shar (also in the contrib tree of metamail) Author: Joe Ilacqua Comments: [ Joe Ilacqua 24-Jun-1993 ] "gnus-mime.el" is an ELISP package that adds support for MIME to GNUS. This is the second release: I consider it very beta, and I'm sure there are bugs, but it does work. It provides support both to read and to post USENET articles in MIME format. It's scarcest feature is support for multi-part multi-media ".signatures". I believe that gnus-mime.el is for GNUS prior to version 3.14.4. Name: INN Product: transport Platform: FTP: Author: Comments: [ Christopher Davis 03-Jun-1993 ] There is some minimal MIME support in the INN package. Since INN is a transport system, not a newsreader, the support is for transferring MIME messages, not reading them. [ Christophe Wolfhugel 23-Jul-1993 ] INN's MIME support is today divided in two parts: 1) the possibility to have nnrpd add default MIME headers to locally posted articles; 2) transfer-encoding changes on transport with `innxmit', i.e. recode 8bit to quoted-printable. Name: MH Product: reader Platform: FTP: Author: Comments: [ John Romine 30-Jul-1993 ] If you compile MH to use NNTP, it can read news with its "bbc" command; MH supports MIME. Name: nn Product: reader Platform: FTP: Author: Comments: [ Luc Rooijakkers 26-Jul-1993 ] The current beta release of nn tags newly posted articles as text/plain; charset=xxx with transfer encoding 8bit if the message contains any 8 bit characters. Reading support needs further work. Name: SNews Product: reader Platform: MS-DOS OS/2 FTP: ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snews191.zip MS-DOS binaries FTP: ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191o.zip OS/2 binaries FTP: ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191s.zip Source Author: Comments: [ Daniel Fandrich 27-Aug-1993 ] Revision 1.91 of the SNews newsreader for MS-DOS systems fixes several bugs in version 1.90 (alpha), as well as adding some much-needed features, including built-in support for ISO 8859/1/2/3/4/9 character sets (RFC 1521 and RFC 1522) and a single key interface to the metamail MIME decoder (or other user-specified program). An additional bonus is the availability of an OS/2 version. Name: trn Product: reader Platform: FTP: Author: Comments: trn 3.0 has support for reading MIME articles with metamail, and creating them with mhn. End of Part II