Re: [nail-devel] saving decoded mail as a readable file
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From: <ju...@cs...> - 2010-04-29 02:55:04
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I wrote: > > Is there a command that will allow me to save > an incoming mail as non-encoded plain text? Thanks to those who responded. One person sent me by private email: >> Did you check out the w(rite) command? It does _some_ decoding >> such as decrypting and base64 decoding but I don't know if it >> would also iconv() the encoding towards "your locale". And this does work for "base64" encoded mail, _except_ that it does not save the header to the file. Is there anyway I can get the w(rite) command to save the mail header in addition to the decoded text? The w(rite) command also does not work very well for "Content-Type: multipart/signed;" or "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" mail though. The multiple parts are saved to files that I am prompted to, but I cannot append these parts to an already existing file. That file is always written over. And like "base 64" encode mail, the mail header is not saved. Then, Gunnar Ritter <gu...@ac...> writes: > > pipe message-list "cat >file" Which I do not follow; Are you suggesting I do something with the unix pipe (|) at the mailx command line prompt? What are other people doing? I prefer to read saved mail with vim but with all of this decoding of text that is going on, are people just reading their mail saved to files with mailx? Thanks; Josef |