Re: graphical mail reader for one-off use

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Ken Hornstein wrote in
 <20230713143447.B814036F84@pb-smtp20.pobox.com>:
 |>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)_/¯

I added .eml to the mime.types of the MUA on 2013-05-25 stating

  +# <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tika/trunk/tika-core/src/main/resources/\
  +# org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml> is a good place to look for a 
rather
  +# complete list of IANA registered and unregistered MIME types.

--steffen
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