This is a text dump of the HTML configuration page for those who cannot
access the http://www.vtt.fi/tte/EuroBridge/Xew/miew.html. This file
describes the additional configuration needed to have make miew enter
the "mail folder" mode on mail folders.
   
   In the default mode miew treats all directories as "plain file
   directories" and all files as messages (if possible), thus if you
   select a RMAIL folder file, you will just get a straight text display
   of the whole folder content. To make miew recognize a file or
   directory as a mail folder, some extra configuration information must
   be provided. This extra information is given in the .MFM file in the
   directory containing the target object.
   
   The .MFM file is a simple text file which maps some filenames within
   this directory to the MIME types. Each mapping is presented with a
   single line of text using the following general syntax:
   
   <filename or mask> [":" [ <MIME type> ]] <NL>
   
   In the filename mask wildcard characters "*" (match zero or more
   characters) and "?" (match single character) can be used freely. The
   MIME type must be written in lower case.
   
Configuring for EMACS RMAIL folder files
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   If you have a file named RMAIL which contains the rmail folder, add
   into .MFM in the same directory a line (and a similar line for the any
   other RMAIL folders that miew should recognize).

	RMAIL:eurobridge/folder
   
   If you have a directory where all files are RMAIL folders, instead of
   enumerating each of them, the following two lines could be used
   instead

	*.miew_cache
	*:eurobridge/folder
   
   The first line, though not necessary, will prevent miew from trying to
   interpret the cache files as RMAIL folders. Similarly, if the
   directory has some other files that you don't want as folders, exclude
   them in the same way.
   
   If the file tagged as "eurobridge/folder" is not recognized as a RMAIL
   folder, it will be assumed to be a "From-separated" folder.
   
Configuring for Unix "mbox" folders
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   If you have a file named mailbox which contains a unix "From-separated
   mail" folder, add into .MFM a line

	mailbox:eurobridge/folder
   
   This configuration is the same as for RMAIL folders, and if you have a
   directory of folders, the methods described for the RMAIL folders
   apply here too.
   
Configuring for mh mail folders
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   mh mail folders are directories, each file containing single message.
   To get 'mh' directories treated as folders, is more complex. When a
   directory is marked as a folder, miew will only display those files
   within this directory that are marked as being messages. Thus,
   assuming you have a 'mh' folder in directory '~/Mail/inbox', you have
   to add line

	inbox:eurobridge/folder
   
   into ~/Mail/.MFM file, and lines

	*.*
	*:eurobridge/message
   
   into ~/Mail/inbox/.MFM to get files marked as messages. The "*.*" line
   is just a convenience to filter out some non-message files (like
   .miew_cache) from consideration.

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   NOTE 1
          The 'filename' in .MFM must not contain any directory path
          component. The names are local to the directory.
          
   NOTE 2
          MFM is a convention that EuroBridge is using to store the type
          of arbitrary file (the library functions dealing with MFM are
          included in to the Mam library).
          
   NOTE 3
          MFM supports also a concept of global rules, which is a file
          with same format as individual .MFM, but applies globally. Thus
          if global rules already have a line
          
          *.jpg:image/jpeg then files matching *.jpg do not need a line
          in the .MFM files (unless for some reason some specific file is
          of some other type regardles of the *.jpg ending). Use of
          global rules file has proven to be a bit problematic, and not
          recommended at this point.