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

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>]

Hi gregor!

You wrote:

> > >  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.

Ah, ok, that quite a bit more work yes ;)
You might want to add something about the decoding to the package
description, then.

Regards,
Bas.
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