Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] captered smtp packets in readable format?

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From: Agryppa <agrypa1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:50:46 +0100
Dnia poniedzia�ek, 6 marca 2006 11:47, Guy Harris napisa�:

> So, to display that message, Ethereal would first need to reassemble the
> message in an SMTP DATA command - or perhaps each part of a multi-part
> message - and then convert each part using the appropriate
> Content-Transfer-Encodings.  [...]
> Printing the packet summary and details, or writing them as text to a
> file, is trickier, as it'd have to know the right character encoding to
> use.

OK, here is what I am aiming at:
1. Capture a whole pop3 or smtp conversation by choosing Follow TCP Stream
2. Save the resulting conversation into a file "myfile.txt"

What options do I have now to look at the content?
Temprarily I do this:

mimencode -u -q myfile.txt

This way I can see the content with the right character encoding on my 
terminal. That doesn't satisfy me, though. Since myfile.txt may contain 
attachments in addition to just text I need to use either ripmime or xdeview. 
It is time consuming and not particularly convenient.

Perfect solution would be to somehow feed the pop3 or smtp conversation to 
maildir directory in such a way that a preferred e-mail client could display 
it with attachments.
Is there such thing?

Agryppa