Attached files


Overview
Many emails have files attached to them, Internet Adventurer supports two ways of handling attached files - both multipart and singlepart files.

Usually, detaching and viewing an email is just a doubleclick away...

Want to view the attachment really fast ?? Just press <Ctrl-V> to view the first attachment in a message - no fuzz !!

File Viewers
In the settings dialog you can setup as many "File Viewers" as you want. For each viewer you want to add, you can enter a MIME type and/or a number of file extensions that you want this viewer to be active for - an example is:

MIME Type:  image/jpeg
Extensions: jpg jpeg
View using external program - "pmview.exe"
This will tell IA to call use PM View do display any jpeg files - the same can be done with gif, tiff, bmp etc. etc. files - any number of viewers can be active at the same time, but only the first match is used to view a given file.

Singlepart attachments - the easy way
Internet Adventurer has builtin recognition of singlepart attachments - this means that it will show the list of attached files at the bottom of the message in the article window. If you now doubleclick on the filename, IA will save the file, and start the appropriate viewer (or default to the browser) to view the attached file.

All detached files are saved in the download directory as specified in the settings dialog.
If you want to save the file to another directory, press Ctrl-S to select where to save the attachment to.

Multipart attachments - the powerful way
If detaching a single file at a time is not enough, you have the more powerful option of marking all the messages that contain attachments, or parts of attachments (both singlepart and multipart).

After selecting the articles to decode, press F9 or select "Detach Files" from the Message menu - this will save all the articles to a subdirectory called "tmp" and then start "detach.cmd" to decode all the attachments - the default action of detach.cmd is to start munpack.exe and let it detach all files and place them in the "tmp" directory.

Attach.cmd will also open a Workplace folder that shows you all the detached files - only a doubleclick away...

You can then manually view all the detached files.



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