Automatically parsing MIME files in rmail

Automatically parsing MIME files in rmail

[Craig Smilovitz]

I use emacs rmail for mail reading.  I seem to remember that in a 
previous emacs I used (on a different machine) there was a function that 
would automatically parse a MIME message and deposit its components in 
separate files in a subdirectory.  I executed this function manually 
from the RMAIL buffer using M-x <function name>.

I don't remember what the function was called.  Does anyone know what it 
was and extra credit if you can tell me where I can get an 
implementation of this function.  As far as I can determine, it doesn't 
appear to be a function in my current installation.

When I look at the emacs documentation, it describes a lot of functions 
mm-* that do low-level mime parsing operations.  My assumption is that 
these are the guts that are called by the lisp macro that I want.  But 
the distance from the mm-* functions to what I want seems too great to 
try and write the top level function myself.

Thanks a lot.

Craig Smilovitz

Re: Automatically parsing MIME files in rmail

[Kevin Rodgers]

Craig Smilovitz wrote:
> I use emacs rmail for mail reading.  I seem to remember that in a 
> previous emacs I used (on a different machine) there was a function that 
> would automatically parse a MIME message and deposit its components in 
> separate files in a subdirectory.  I executed this function manually 
> from the RMAIL buffer using M-x <function name>.
> 
> I don't remember what the function was called.  Does anyone know what it 
> was and extra credit if you can tell me where I can get an 
> implementation of this function.  As far as I can determine, it doesn't 
> appear to be a function in my current installation.
> 
> When I look at the emacs documentation, it describes a lot of functions 
> mm-* that do low-level mime parsing operations.  My assumption is that 
> these are the guts that are called by the lisp macro that I want.  But 
> the distance from the mm-* functions to what I want seems too great to 
> try and write the top level function myself.

See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/Rmail#toc6 and
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/RmailMime

-- 
Kevin