Re: how to see email "source" text?

Yes, of couse, that's exactly what to do!

Thanks!

-tc

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Ted Crum
tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Christopher Chin wrote:
> Ted, you mention pine's eXport function.  Choose Save
> instead, and save it to a new file/mailbox. ... then you
> have the raw message.
>
>   - Christopher
>
> ======================
>
> Today at 13:21 (-0700), Ted Crum wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:21:53 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Ted Crum <tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu>
> > To: Micronet group micronet <micronet-list@listlink.berkeley.edu>
> > Subject: [Micronet] how to see email "source" text?
> >
> > In the past I've been able to help my users fix some badly corrupted
> > e-mail attachments by having them "bounced" to me unaltered, and then
> > looking at the mail spool or an elm folder with a text editor.
> >
> > As often as not, a dimwit program (outlook, spam or virus filter) had
> > broken the mime envelope or added trash to the contents, which I could fix
> > in the editor and then decode with Stuffit (Expander, Windows).
> >
> > Now I find myself without a way to see the actual text of the document.
> > There is no direct access to the IMAP files, and Pine's Export funtion
> > tries to strip the attachment, as does Eudora.
> >
> > It seems like the Constitution should grant us the right to see the actual
> > mail that was sent to us, instead of some program's idea of what we should
> > see. Any suggestions? Mutt? Can I ssh to mime like I used to telnet to
> > popd?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ted
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ted Crum
> > tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu
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