[Alpine-info] View email (rfc822) attachments in alpine

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Stefan,

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Stefan Bertels wrote:


> I often get emails forwarded with a "message" attachment 

> (message/rfc822, *.eml). I sometimes want to reply to the attached 

> message or something like that (forward, bounce, take address from ...) 

> so I want to view the attachment as if it was a real mail in my INBOX. 

> Is this possible? AFAIR I had something like this used before. Currently 

> I only get a prompt to open the attachment by extension (*.eml) which 

> does not open alpine.

> 

> I know I could save the attachment to some folder, open it there and 

> remove it later. But it would be better to have something simpler here.


Usually you can use the ">" key to enter the attachment list and then 
select the message and view it as a message. The Forward option should be 
visible from there.

Cheers, Chris.
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