On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:45:20PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2010-06-14, Steve Brown wrote: > > 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. [...] > If I understand you correctly, this is really easy to do, and the > functions to do it are built in. To save a copy of the message, use > the decode-copy function bound by default to <Esc>C, or to save the > message and mark the original for deletion, use the decode-save > function bound by default to <Esc>s. You can find both of these in > the help menus for the index and the pager. The decode- versions of > these functions will use filters defined in your mailcap file to > decode the attachments from Word to plain text, just as in the > pager, as they are written to the specified files along with the > message bodies.
Absolutely spot on! Thank you very much.
