UPDATE: Wine 1.0+ works great with this issue. All the menu’s seem to work.

I had a requirement to convert a desktop to GNU/Linux but still provide access to the MLXchange web site. I found this link which helped but I have some improvements on it.

Using Ubuntu it’s as easy as:

sudo apt-get install wine

Then download and install ies4linux or ie4osx and install it as per the instructions on the respective sites.

Then grab the latest version of mfc42.dll (6.2.4131.0) and place that in ~/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/windows/system and ~/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/windows/system32 overwriting the existing versions. I found this helps with speed.

Then launch ie6 and you will have access to the MLX. The only thing I have noticed is that the soft dropdowns do not work (the ones controlled by ActiveX). So you will need to enter some info manually. However this is a minor inconvenience and not a show stopper. Everything else seems to work. I will update if I find more problems.