Re: Replacement Email Client
On Wed 28 Oct 2020 at 12:45:49 (+0000), Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020, at 03:59, David Wright wrote:
>
> > I've found those sorts of emails (loosely coupled images) are easy to
> > deal with. In mutt, for example, press v for the attachments menu,
> > and again on any multipart or message/rfc822 that needs opening,
> > exposing the attachments within.
>
> Ages ago, using an email client that allowed one to edit the raw
> content of emails (handy for doing things like splitting OT parts of
> threads, changing Subjects to what meant something to me, etc) I
> had scripts that ran within my text editor which would do things like
> find all the attachments in an email and assign sensible names and
> content types to them. Then when that was saved the client's normal
> export/detach options could be used to process the files.
Sounds like those scripts might suit the OP, at least for one aspect
of the problem (complex pages of text and images). In which case,
mutt would be a suitable client, as it allows that kind of editing
(with 'e').
Cheers,
David.
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