R help - Dec 2004 - MIME decoding in Mozilla Thunderbird

Hello all!
I recently switched mail program to Mozilla Thunderbird, running on W2k.
Everything works fine, except the MIME-digests from this list. The 
decoding doesn??t work properly.

I had contact with Martin Maechler some time ago, and he suggested a try 
on this list for ideas on how to do the decoding in Windows, even if 
it??s not a proper R-question.

Outlook do the proper job on the MIME, but using that is to go a bit 
far! Or?

/CG

-- 
CG Pettersson MSci. PhD.Stud.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Dep. of Ecology and Crop production sciences (EVP).
http://www.slu.se/
cg.pettersson at evp.slu.se

CG Pettersson wrote:
> Hello all!
> I recently switched mail program to Mozilla Thunderbird, running on W2k.
> Everything works fine, except the MIME-digests from this list. The 
> decoding doesn??t work properly.
> 
> I had contact with Martin Maechler some time ago, and he suggested a try 
> on this list for ideas on how to do the decoding in Windows, even if 
> it??s not a proper R-question.
> 
> Outlook do the proper job on the MIME, but using that is to go a bit 
> far! Or?
> 
> /CG
> 
Thunderbird, which is an otherwise wonderful mail client, does not work 
for r-help digests.  The reason is that if you receive 100 messages in a 
day, Thunderbird inefficiently handles all the mime 'attachments', and 
navigating them all is incredibly slow.  I didn't have the decoding 
problem you mentioned though.

-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University