Re: [Evolution] How to save only the plain text part of multiple emails.

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I have a bunch of plain text emails which I would like to save. The
> problem is that I only want the plain text part of the emails. Using
> 'Save as...' saves the other parts as well, like header, signature.
>
> Then I found 'Actions/Save attachments...' with which one can save
> different parts of a mail. But this only works for one mail at a time
> and I have a lot.
>
> Is there some way to save only the plain text part of multiple emails at
> once?

As partha already said, there is none.

> If not, how would it be possible to remove everything else from a
> saved message (headers...) except the text part, as I don't seem to find
> any mark separating the parts?

Well, have a closer look at the mails and maybe the appropriate RFCs.

If you got one mail at a time, these hints will help you:

* Multiple MIME parts of a mail are indeed seperated with a special
  mark. MIME headers like this do mention the boundaries:

  Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-2gZ1roA/HoYrlRDVGyiM"

* Getting rid of the header of a mail is easy, as the header is
  separated from the body by an empty line. It's the first empty line in
  the raw mail.

* Languages like Perl do have a bunch of modules, that know MIME. So you
  can use them to split the mail in parts and grab th ones you want
  only.


If you happen to have a file with multiple mails in it, tools like
formail and procmail will help you splitting them for shell scripting.
If you're going to use a different programming language, there most
likely are modules that can deal with this as well.

HTH

...guenther


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