Re: How to backup emails with colon in file name

2017-07-10 Thread Tim Chase
On 2017-07-05 21:38, Jason wrote: > > - create a file such as "mail.img" on your FAT partition, format > > it as something smarter (e.g. ext{2,3,4}, UFS or ZFS), and mount > > it as a loop-back/memory-disk, to which you can then use rsync to > > that loopback device. This allows for actual sym-lin

Attachment saving and piping: what of the headers?

2017-07-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Well, just when I thought I'd never need to ask a question here again :-) I started writing a script which will run as a sink of from the attachment view. I spent some minutes to make the script correctly (I thought) skip over the MIME headers, and only start the real processing after the empty

Re: Attachment saving and piping: what of the headers?

2017-07-10 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 10.07.17 14:29, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I tried both a straight save, and a pipe to a cat command. In either > case, no headers are present, and neither is the separator line; the > file just contains the body and that's that. Curious. Here, a "| cat > /tmp/fred" produced a copy of your post, c

Re: Attachment saving and piping: what of the headers?

2017-07-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-07-11 13:05, Erik Christiansen wrote: > Curious. Here, a "| cat > /tmp/fred" produced a copy of your post, > complete with 80 lines of headers. That's with pipe_decode unset, and > Mutt 1.8.0 (2017-02-23). But that is not what I'm writing about. I'm just trying to save a single attachmen