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Bug#347828: ITP: mailtextbody -- Tool to return the body of an email message



On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:28:27AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:

Hi Bas!

Thanks for your feedback.

> >  Mailtextbody reads a complete email message on stdin and returns
> >  the body (the text/plain part) on standard out.
> Isn't that just an awk oneliner?  I find it a bit overkill to create a
> separate package for just that.  

That's certainly true for simple mails with just header and body. But
it's not that easy to get the first text/plain MIME part if the
original mail is a nested multipart MIME message.

> If you really need such a tool, please
> have it included in mailutils or some similar package.

Thanks for the idea, I'll contact the mailutils maintainer.

gregor 
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