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Re: OSX Mail app → Emacs ?


From: Yuri Khan
Subject: Re: OSX Mail app → Emacs ?
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 15:38:15 +0700

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:

> I would recommend a backend which stores mails
> single files (one file per mail), e.g. nnml.
> That way you can use the shell tools on the
> mails much easier than those
> many-mails-in-one-file methods.

This is an overpromise. It *may* make using shell tools easier *if*
your mail is all in English, and even more so if it’s all plain text.

I am using the single-message-per-file format for my mail archive at
work. Here’s a typical line of text out of that archive:

<td colspan=3D"3" color=3D"white"><span style=3D"color: white; =
font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif; font-size:24px; font-style=
: italic; display: block; text-align: center; margin: 0;"><br>=D0=9F=D1=80=
=D0=B8=D0=B2=D0=B5=D1=82, =D0=AE=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=B9! </span></td>

As you can see, the only greppable thing in there is the irrelevant
HTML markup, and all the actual text (which is often UTF-8 but still
sometimes KOI8-R or windows-1251) is safely encoded in
quoted-printable.



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