On 19.04.2013 00:56, Dave Stevens wrote: > I've taken the suggestion of poma from earlier to try recoll as a > desktop search engine. It indexed everything nicely and is very quick. I > can't seem to get attachments out of my retrieved emails. > > So the one I'm looking for right now has an attached .pdf, but the whole > mail, headers and mime text and all, displays as ascii text. > > I can use recoll's 'open' command, which fires up thunderbird and shows > the attachment with an automatically generated name (gibberish, more or > less) but when I try to save then view the attachment gedit is showing > me the ascii. I vaguely recall years ago having to manually detach > mime-encoded text but don't remember details. "Open" opens an attachments in the the default applications without any problemos - of course in Xfce. ;) poma -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org