Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

        apt-get install mpack
and/or
        apt-get install mime-construct

Am 2006-01-11 15:49:22, schrieb Don McLaughlin:
> I'd appreciate any pointers to some command-line tools for doing the
> following.
> 
> (1) Take mail and news messages as input files and produce as output
>     files the same messages but with all the attachments, HTML parts,
>     and other non-plain-text stuff deleted, keeping the headers and
>     the plain-text of the body, as if the sender had written the
>     message without attachments or HTML.
> 
>     What I really want to do is use maildirs and news spools as input
>     and produce a directory of cleaned files, which will then be used
>     for corpus linguistics. But if I can find a straight filter
>     program (stdin, stdout) and I can write a script to find -exec it.
> 
>     I looked at mimefilter but I don't want to generate outgoing
>     messages to the senders and all that.
> 
> 
> (2) Take a mail message file as input and output a directory
>     containing separate files of the decoded attachments and the text
>     of the message (preferably with the mail headers).
> 
>     This would be for archiving my own e-mail.
> 
> Thanks,
> Don
> 
> 
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