On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 02:06:35PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 02Feb2018 10:25, Yubin Ruan <ablacktsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I try to save a multipart/alternative attachment to file but all the content > > seems to be messed up. When view in a pager, it look good: > > > > -------------------------------- > > LinkedIn Highlights > > > > Should I tell coworkers my salary? > > > > 264 people are talking about this > > > > https://www.linkedin.com/comm/search/results/content/?keywords=Should+I+tell+coworkers+my+salary%3F&origin=FED_EMAIL&anchorTopic=506458&midToken=AQFSR-6AohV2qQ&trk=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null&trkEmail=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null-null-6mvow3%7Ejd475j9d%7Ey4-null-neptune%2Fsearch%2Eresults%2Econtent&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aemail_email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01%3BrxyHuw3NTWi4n8fHNW81ig%3D%3D > > --------------------------------- > > > > However, when saved to a file, it become: > > (which is the same as in editor when you press 'e' to edit the email) > > > > ------------------------------------ > > LinkedIn Highlights > > > > Should I tell coworkers my salary? > > > > 264 people are talking about this > > > > https://www.linkedin.com/comm/search/results/content/?keywords=3DShould+I+t= > > ell+coworkers+my+salary%3F&origin=3DFED_EMAIL&anchorTopic=3D506458&midToken= > > =3DAQFSR-6AohV2qQ&trk=3Deml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null&trkE= > > mail=3Deml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null-null-6mvow3%7Ejd475j9= > > d%7Ey4-null-neptune%2Fsearch%2Eresults%2Econtent&lipi=3Durn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ae= > > mail_email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01%3BrxyHuw3NTWi4n8fHNW81ig%3D%3D > > > > =20 > > ----------------------------------- > > > > I know the tailing = at the end is to enable the pager to prettify thing. > > But > > can we save directly from the pager? > > I don't think this is anything to do with locales. > > I'm presuming you're talking about saving something from the attachment > menu? And not about saving a message complete. > > What you show above is interesting. > > It looks to me like the second version, the folded lines ending in "=", is > quoted-printable, which encoded most ASCII range text as itself, with escape > sequences for various bytes not in the common lower range and of course for > the escape character "=" itself. Its purpose it to get text through various > systems undamaged while keeping it visually fairly readable. > > Normally, that would be the attachment's Content-Transfer-Encoding, which I > would expect to be decoded on save, because the attachment is no longer > enclosed in a mail message structure. > > Apparently not the case. > > Can you describe _exactly_ what procedure your went through to save this > message, from the index view (list of message titels/authors only) through > to saving the file? So that we can reproduce what you've done and understand > it?
Procedure: 1. enter the attachment view using 'v' 2. go the attachment you want to save, 3. press 's', which will prompt you for a file name to save the file with FYI: those tailing = are not generated by Mutt. I am using Gmail, and through Gmail's web interface I can confirm that the original mail already have those tailing = . -- Yubin
