[MlMt] How can I save the HTML part of an email so that I can open in a browser or text editor?

[Quinn Comendant]

Thanks Bill, this is very helpful. When I have time I'll make a MlMt command and share it back here.

Quinn

On 3 Mar 2022, at 0:26, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 2022-03-01 at 21:20:51 UTC-0500 (Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:20:51 -0600)
> Quinn Comendant <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> Thanks for both of your suggestions:
>>
>>> Not direct save but you could change view to “Show HTML Source”, […]
>>
>> Bill's correct, that won't give me access to the raw HTML.
>>
>>> To get the HTML part of a multipart (or pure HTML) message, you need to use "Show Raw Message" […]
>>
>> That's what I've been doing, but it's not convenient because the raw email part will be either base64 or quoted-printable encoded, which is not easy to decode. Base64 is easy to decode, but it seems to be less common. I'm not sure how to decode quoted-printable correctly.
>
> A tiny Perl script I call 'decode-qp':
>
>     #!/usr/bin/perl
>
>     eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl  -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
>         if 0; # not running under some shell
>
>     use MIME::QuotedPrint qw(decode_qp);
>
>     while (<>) {
>         print decode_qp($_);
>     }
>
>> The reason I want to extract HTML messages is to analyze them to improve the spam filtering on the mail servers I manage, and it's really useful to be able to access the html.
>
> If you're friendly with Perl, there is a tool called mimeexplode in the examples collection distributed with the MIME::Tools package which explodes a MIME message into a directory tree containing its constituent parts.
>
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