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Caeml currently assumes that seeing the text/plain part is what you want. It does not provide any information about the existence of other message parts, nor is it obvious from the output whether the message is empty or whether it did not contain a text/plain part (some people might only send text/html).

Some thoughts about improvement:

• print a warning, if there's no text/plain part found
• allow a commandline override to output a different part other than text/plain
• somehow print an enumeration of all the message parts (maybe as a special "header"?)

Some notes to myself:

Maybe go somehow like this: iterate over all the parts. If we see text/plain, store it for output and after the entire iteration write it to stdout. If we haven't yet seen text/plain but we see text/html store that for output, but overwrite with text/plain if we see that. If user passes text/html as the desired output, do the same, but don't overwrite with text/plain (need to store a flag that the stored output is not fallback probably). We can do this for any other part (i.e. first always fall back to text/plain, if that is not available to text/html, but if we see the requested part store that for output and set the flag that we are not fallback anymore).

Also display the text/plain part from any message/rfc562 attachment in the email with the same headers