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I'm looking for a free .eml file viewer to just read email files and for extracting attachments.
I don't want to use Mail.app as it requires account setup – when I click on a .eml file Mail.app opens with a window for setting up an account – which I don't want to do – I never use Mail.app – I use gmail.
Is there a .eml email file viewer (including extracting attachments)?
To illustrate the point made in the comments, just drag the icon (or the inlined image) from the mail body to wherever you want:
The iOS version of Sparrow has just been released, and it contains this functionality. In the settings for email accounts you can set up aliases. You can also set up a custom signature and SMTP server for each alias:
When composing a message, by default it will be sent from your default alias. If you want to change this, tap the "From" in the top center and you will be able to select which alias you want this message to come from:
Sparrow is available in the App Store.
Best Answer
To extract attachments from the Terminal, you can use a couple of different methods. Probably the easiest is
where
file.emlis the email file in question andoutis the name of the attachment.The same thing can be accomplished by using the
base64command, but you have to do some cleanup work on the original email file first -- namely strip everything out of the eml file before the base64 encoded attachment. The command would be something along these linesIf you take the 2nd approach, recommend that you operate on a copy of the original file.
Of course for reading the eml files, you can probably use
cator your favorite editor. Works in a pinch, but certainly not the easiest way to deal with email.