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Re: Accessing raw mail data?



On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:46:24PM +0000, Michael Kjorling wrote:
> Short of saving a message to a separate folder and opening that in a
> text editor, or digging out the correct Maildir file using a
> general-purpose file manager, is there a way in Mutt to access the raw
> (undecoded) data of an e-mail?

You can pipe it to some external app by using the 'pipe-message' command, which
is by default bound to | (pipe). Just make sure 'pipe_decode' is set to 'no'
(the default value).

Some examples:

    (First select desired message)

    Open in less: |less<enter>
    Open in vim: |vim -<enter>

David