Exporting mime email

[Mark Walters]

Hello

On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:35:27 +0000, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:29:39 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the best way of exporting/saving as text a mime-encoded email
> > from the emacs interface (e.g, if I want to save a mime-encoded email
> > containing a patch)?
> > 
> > For non-mime emails View-raw is fine, but with mime encoded emails such
> > as (picked pretty much at random)
> > id:"1325240897-27525-1-git-send-email-dme at dme.org"
> > I haven't found any non-hack method.
> 
> That message is 8bit UTF-8 at my end. Saving it use '|' works just fine
> for me. What encoding do you see?

Does saving the message like this give you a file you can apply directly
with the patch command? When I save it (using | or from view-raw) I get
a message which looks like

(Delivery headers)
From: ...
To: ...
Subject: =?UTF-8?q?=5BPATCH=5D=20emacs=3A=20Improved=20printing=20support=2E?=
Date: ..
(some X and list headers)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Sender: notmuch-bounces at notmuchmail.org
Errors-To: notmuch-bounces at notmuchmail.org

QWRkIHZhcmlvdXMgZnVuY3Rpb25zIHRvIHByaW50IG5vdG11Y2ggbWVzc2FnZXMgYW5kIHRpZSB0
aGVtIHRvZ2V0aGVyCndpdGggYSBzaW1wbGUgZnJvbnRlbmQuIE5vIGtleWJpbmRpbmcgaXMgY3Vy
cmVudGx5IG1hZGUgdG8gZW5jb3VyYWdlCnBhcGVyIHNhdmluZy4KLS0tCgpSZXN1cnJlY3Rpbmcg
.. for 100 lines or so

The saved file is identical to the file  in my maildir. But feeding it
to patch in the form  patch -p1 < exported_file does not work.

I have just discovered git am which solves this problem for patches but
I think it might be useful to be able to export the plain-text email
sometimes.

(If this is all some messed up utf-8 settings my end then many apologies
for the noise)

Many thanks 

Mark