[mew-int 2798] Re: email to plain text conversion

+ Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <[email protected]>:

> > how can I convert email to plain text with mew?  In particular, I want
> > the stuff mew displays in a mail buffer (with properly decoded `From:'
> > lines and bodies using UTF-8) to be saved to a buffer, and this for a
> > bunch of selected emails.
> > 
> > It seems that mew can't do this; I have to do a `write-region' after
> > marking the whole buffer.
> 
> Currently, there is no such command.
> 
> But "|" can call a shell command. Typing "cat > file" after "|" may
> save you.

How hard would it be to write one? Say I want some elisp code to take
all marked messages one by one, opening each in Message mode, and then
run some elisp function in the message buffer? Could you drop us a
hint so we can try it ourselves? (I am interested in something along
these lines too.)

- Harald