How to export a readable email from mutt

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Sometimes I would like to export an email, in readable plain-text format, with headers stripped and the text readable, just like it's shown to me when I read it in mutt. It must surely be possible?

Of course there is the s-key for saving the email as it is, but unfortunately in 2017 very few emails are easily readable without any processing, there are often several pages with irrelevant headers, and there are different forms of content-transfer-encoding making the content itself unreadable, extra noise due to the multipart/alternative encoding, etc.

Best Answer

I, often, use Escape-S to decode-save the message to a file. After that, I can edit the file to remove headers, signatures or anything else.

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