From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Craig Smilovitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Automatically parsing MIME files in rmail Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:54:04 -0500 Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166589642 4642 80.91.229.10 (20 Dec 2006 04:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 20 05:40:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GwtFo-00075e-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwtFo-0000VW-EC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-151-203-233-184.bos.east.verizon.net Original-X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1166586847 680 151.203.233.184 (20 Dec 2006 03:54:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:54:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144153 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39756 Archived-At: 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 . 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