2.10 Special www4mail Options

www4mail has been enhanced to include more specialized options for setting the language and character set, allowing links for images, etc. These new options were introduced as a result of the responsive feedback from testers during the first months of trial.

For example, you can send an e-mail

To: www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it Subject: (... whatever you like)

with one of the following options:

`XIMAGE (use one option line only!)'

This option will include links for images in a Web document sent as an attachment.

`XLANGUAGE xx , xx (all in one option line only!)'

This option allows to set a list of (comma-separated) preferred language(s) for retrieving a Web document (please note that language support will only work if it is make available on the Web server requested). Examples of language codes available include: de (for German), en for English, fr for French, etc.

`XCHARSET xxxxx , xxxxx (all in one option line only!)'

This option allows to define the list of (comma-separated) preferred character set(s) for retrieving a Web document (please note that charset support will only work if it is available on the Web server requested). Examples of character sets available include: euc-cn (for Chinese), euc-jp (for Japanese), iso-8859-6 (for Arabic), etc.

`XMIME (use one option line only!)'

Some Mail User Agents render/display HTML or text attachments directly by themselves. For such MUAs www4mail can generate a different Content-Type: header for HTML documents. If this is the case, then using XMIME you can force the sending of html attachments using a MIME header of application/html. This is useful for preventing your e-mail client from attempting to open the html attachment itself.

`XURLCODE (use one option line only!)'

When filling HTML forms via e-mail, it could happen that your data input might get damaged somewhere along the line, in which case you might get a request to resend the data from the Web server. By using the XURLCODE option www4mail will attempt to instruct your Web browser to code the data before transmission by e-mail. This should protect the integrity of your input data and permit the submission of the filled form.

`XBYJS (use one option line only!)'

Some Web browsers are not capable of transmitting data by e-mail, e.g., MS-IE v3.0. This problem usually shows up after you check the links that you would like to retrieve and select the "Get Selected Document(s)" button. What you get is that your mail program opens a new message with the address of the www4mail server appearing and the body of the message blank. You can use the XBYJS option to work-around this problem provided you are using a JavaScript compatible browser.

Note: This work-around tries to fill in the Subject: line automatically instead of the message body needed by www4mail. But if you notice that the Subject: line is blank, you will need to cut out all characters starting from the ? sign in the To: field and paste them in the Subject: line manually.