Re: graphical mail reader for one-off use

[Ken Hornstein]

>Thanks Ken!  I'll be giving this a try!  (I would have "just tried it
>myself", but I don't have any modern readers installed!  Small point
>of pride, until now.  :-)

One note: you MIGHT have to have Thunderbird configured properly as a MUA
to do this (I already had this done).

>Huh.  ".eml".  I've spent years using and part-time developing email clients
>and servers, and never heard of that extension.  Good to know.

I am not sure those things are standardized, but I just Googled "eml
file extension" and it seems kind of common (some results suggested it
originally came from Outlook), and I had personally seen that for a
while.  Right or wrong, Apple had decided in the transition to OS X that
"file types" were determined by the filename suffix since you didn't
really have resource forks so the way things that use the OS facilities
to determine the file type will look at the file suffix.  I only mention
this to say that I don't know how Thunderbird will determine a file type
on other platforms.

I was curious and did a little bit of digging.  New MIME types
that are registered with IANA can include a suggested file extension.
message/rfc822 predates that registry and the original MIME RFCs do not
specify a file extension for that type.  The message/global MIME type
(a RFC822 message but with UTF-8 everywhere) has a suggested
file extension of ".u8msg", which I have never personally seen "in
the wild" anywhere.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

--Ken