Can someone help me sort out problem(s) with email usually from win-dose victims ... er, users but sometimes from other sources.
Within Evolution, the message body is blank but there is an attachment. This attachment may itself be blank or broken in some way.

If I can alter settings as recipient so that these fractured messages don't happen, terrific. If there is some SaveAs & filter that will let me extract the content, that is good too. If there are settings that the sender might enable on their end, I could always ask, but I'd still need that filter.

I routinely get email with "attachments" . These attachments are supposed to be other messages being forwarded to me. These 2nd, 3rd, ... level messages are routinely broken somehow so that I cannot read them with Evolution or Thunderbird. I can save as mumble.eml and scan with a text editor, but then I find large block of mime-encoded content that is often some sort of image file: JPG, PNG, PDF etc.

Thanks,
~~~ 0;-Dan

I've used a command line program named ripMIME to extract attachments from an email. I'm not familiar with Evolution or Thunderbird email formats, but you should be able to save the email to a file (like mumble.eml) and then run ripMIME on the file.

I'll give ripMIME a whirl...

Any ideas about why so many win-dose messages are broken some way or another? Is there anything that anyone can do about that?

Thanks,
~~~ 0;-Dan