On 14-06-2010, at 15h 49'44", Steve Brown wrote about "How to save email plus word attachments as one text file" > 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.
[...] I would just save the attachments and run antiword (or similar) on the doc file to produce txt or pdf files (outside mutt). If you wish you can set a key combination to do just that, or change the save-attachment function to do the conversion prior to the saving itself. Ionel
