From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647E0429E33 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:01:14 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.098 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.098 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bb6Q5uXiZeoF for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:01:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.qmul.ac.uk (mail2.qmul.ac.uk [138.37.6.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4CB4429E32 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.qmul.ac.uk ([138.37.6.40]) by mail2.qmul.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiyBD-0005jR-Kc; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:01:12 +0000 Received: from 94-192-233-223.zone6.bethere.co.uk ([94.192.233.223] helo=localhost) by smtp.qmul.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiyBD-0004Qd-Co; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:01:11 +0000 From: Mark Walters To: Jameson Graef Rollins , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: Exporting mime email In-Reply-To: <87lipl3bj9.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> References: <87hb09y8p8.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> <87lipl3bj9.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.10.2+183~g99cd7be (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:01:10 +0000 Message-ID: <87vcoppru1.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Sender-Host-Address: 94.192.233.223 X-QM-SPAM-Info: Sender has good ham record. :) X-QM-Body-MD5: 4b4f1e673c0d366cf0dc4c9db5a3b3e5 (of first 20000 bytes) X-SpamAssassin-Score: -1.8 X-SpamAssassin-SpamBar: - X-SpamAssassin-Report: The QM spam filters have analysed this message to determine if it is spam. We require at least 5.0 points to mark a message as spam. This message scored -1.8 points. Summary of the scoring: * -2.3 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, * medium trust * [138.37.6.40 listed in list.dnswl.org] * 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider * (markwalters1009[at]gmail.com) * -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay * domain * 0.5 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-QM-Scan-Virus: ClamAV says the message is clean X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:01:14 -0000 Hi On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:44:10 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:29:39 +0000, Mark Walters wrote: > > What is the best way of exporting/saving as text a mime-encoded email > > from the emacs interface (e.g, if I want to save a mime-encoded > > email containing a patch)? > > Maybe you're looking for '|'? That will pipe the raw message to > whatever command is specified. What I would like is a way of exporting the decoded text rather than the raw message. As an explicit example I would like to be able to export a mime encoded email containing a patch, and then do something like patch -p1 < exported_file Sorry for not making myself clear Many thanks Mark