reading plain text mails/getting attachments from them
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Hi guys,
really simple question here I suppose, just couldn't find the answer for
myself, so please enlighten me =)
In the past few days I found myself twice in the situation of needing to
~ work with an email saved as plain text file.
Once it was when reportbug coouldn't send my bugreport because I
neglected to properly configure it, and the second time when I had to
assemble an email with attachment split in two where I really had only
needed the attached patch.
So I tried to use mutt (which I have 0 experience with), started, hit
`c' and navigated to the folder the mail was located and then looked at
it with SPACE, but somehow mutt treats it like any other text file
without recognizing that all the stuff required to be in an email by RFC
whatever were in there.
This was the situation with the bugreport I'd been trying to send, I
finally ended up copying subject and body into a thunderbird-compose
window and sending it that-a-way.
As for the attached patch I tried to save out of the mail you can
imagine from the depiction of my pityful struggle above I had similar
success. Here I ended up editing the file per hand to remove all that
was not part of the attachment and then using a program called base64 I
found on the net to decode it.
I would really appreciate your preventing this mishap to reoccur =)
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