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Been thinking about this subject: Of course, standard (usual, common) email is just text. Right for the pictures, to have them just as text, they are encoded
by graycat 2y ago
Been thinking about this subject:
Of course, standard (usual, common) email is just text. Right for the pictures, to have them just as text, they are encoded as base64. Right, its MIME (MultiMedia Internet Mail Extensions).
Soooo, okay, my ISP (Internet Service Provider)
has an email service. The service is a Web site, and it does offer getting the "Source", that is, the text, all as just one file.
Now, suppose for each email message I send/receive, I keep the text in its own file, with just the text, just as I got it from, say, my ISP. I will handle the file naming, indexing, summarization, etc.
Help!!!! Is there an email program that I can run that, for each of those files, can read it and display it? Sure, it should be able to display the text, as text, that is not one of the MIME extensions but also be able to do the right thing for each of the rest, still images, video clips, audio, whatever. Know of such a program???? Thanks!
- Gormo 2y agoPretty much any standard mail client should be able to do what you are describing. Thunderbird can open raw email files and display them as though they were received via POP3 or IMAP.
- graycat 2y agoThanks. I have a copy of Thunderbird. Maybe tried it, but should try it again. Of course, if the email has the HTML, JS, etc. of a complicated Web page, Thunderbird would have to have full Web browser functionality or pass the HTML part to a Web browser. Maybe I could just write some simple code to read the actual email, find the Web page part, and send it to Firefox.