On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:27:16 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does saving the message like this give you a file you can apply directly
> with the patch command? When I save it (using | or from view-raw) I get
> a message which looks like

Ahh. This particular message is a bad example for me to check, because I
have the version that I bcc'd rather than the one delivered by the
mailing list.

Presumably something is converting it from 8bit to base64 along the
path.

I scouted around for other messages that include © (which is what I
presume causes the encoding), but the ones I have are all still 8bit.

> I have just discovered git am which solves this problem for patches but
> I think it might be useful to be able to export the plain-text email
> sometimes.

Agreed.