Hi List.
I'm struggling to get my head around a small problem that I have, and I
wonder if one of you would be kind enough to give me a pointer or two.
I receive a number of emails with word attachments.
I can happily read them inline using antiword and things are fine.
It has come to pass that I need to save some of these emails as a text
file, pretty much as it is in Mutt's pager. That is, the email body,
then the text of the attachments, concatenated into one file. I just
need plain text, nothing fancy at all.
My guess is that I need to write a macro to do it, and it is here that
things fall down.
I am a very basic user of Mutt - I use it to read email very quickly and
to send quick replies. I don't have a huge email load at the moment but
this will change and the number of emails I have to process is likely to
increase significantly. All things point to using Mutt over a graphical
client, they are just too damned slow.
I've toyed with the idea of using procmail to store all of these emails
as text files automatically, but I don't need to keep them all, so Mutt
is the obvious candidate for reviewing and discarding/keeping the
required emails.
Am I barking up the wrong tree?
Many thanks,
Steve
