how to see email "source" text?

In the past I've been able to help my users fix some badly
corrupted
e-mail attachments by having them "bounced" to
me unaltered, and then
looking at the mail spool or an elm folder with a text
editor.

As often as not, a dimwit program (outlook, spam or virus
filter) had
broken the mime envelope or added trash to the contents,
which I could fix
in the editor and then decode with Stuffit (Expander,
Windows).

Now I find myself without a way to see the actual text of
the document.
There is no direct access to the IMAP files, and Pine's
Export funtion
tries to strip the attachment, as does Eudora.

It seems like the Constitution should grant us the right to
see the actual
mail that was sent to us, instead of some program's idea of
what we should
see. Any suggestions? Mutt? Can I ssh to mime like I used to
telnet to
popd?

Thanks,

Ted

-- 

Ted Crum
tedcrumsocrates.berkeley.edu

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Ted Crum wrote:
> In the past I've been able to help my users fix some
badly corrupted
> e-mail attachments by having them "bounced"
to me unaltered, and then
> looking at the mail spool or an elm folder with a text
editor.
> 
> As often as not, a dimwit program (outlook, spam or
virus filter) had
> broken the mime envelope or added trash to the
contents, which I could fix
> in the editor and then decode with Stuffit (Expander,
Windows).
> 
> Now I find myself without a way to see the actual text
of the document.
> There is no direct access to the IMAP files, and
Pine's Export funtion
> tries to strip the attachment, as does Eudora.
> 
> It seems like the Constitution should grant us the
right to see the actual
> mail that was sent to us, instead of some program's
idea of what we should
> see. Any suggestions? Mutt? Can I ssh to mime like I
used to telnet to
> popd?

Thunderbird has a "View Source" option.

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_holubLS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.e
du/lscr/>

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