>> > In case you haven't already tried this, you can manually change the mime >> > type of the attachment from the compose menu using <edit-type> (bound to >> > ^T by default), and set it to "text/plain" >> >> That does not work for two reasons: >> >> - amazon does not recognise the forwarded attachment as "attachment" >> for some reason > > If you forward the email as an attachment (look for mime_forward in > the manual) you can prevent this.
Strangely enough even when I forward as attachment (text/plain), the amazon system does not recognise it as an attachment. I am not sure why. >> - when I covert from message/rfc822 to text/plain, the whole msg >> header part gets dumped in. > > To prevent this you would have to cut out the headers, which would be > difficult with simple forwarding. > >> > Failing that, saving the mail you want to forward to a file with >> > extension .txt, then attaching that file to a new mail, will both produce >> > the desired file extension and automatically set the mime type to >> > "text/plain" (assuming you have mime.types configured sanely). >> >> That works indeed. However it is a painful manual process. Any quick >> way to automate it? > > Write a macro saving the message to a txt and composing a new email > with the file attached. But be aware, this file will also contain the > full headers. You would probably need a script to cut out the headers. That seems to be the way out since I can also convert the text/plain to mobi or whatever that amazon overlords want. Can you help by providing a skeleton of a macro? I can try to hook it to a a perl/python script that removes headers and convert to .mobi etc. Thanks, skn
