[thelist] MIME decoder

Simon Perry thelist at si-designs.co.uk
Fri May 28 06:08:02 CDT 2004


Nick Lester wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Does anybody know of a UNIX / Solaris Mime decoder program that can strip
>out attatchements from an email and save them on the file system. It must
>be able to process the majority of MIME content types, preferably
>including 'ms-tnef' (a Microsoft Rich Text Format standard).
>
>I need the program to run at the command prompt so it can be embedded into
>a Korn Shell Script to run unattended.
>
>  
>
Nick,

Not Unix or Solaris per se but Perl[0] and Python[1] both have modules 
or libraries available to strip mime encoded messages.

Simon

[0] http://www.linux.org.ar/cpan/scripts/Mail/
or http://search.cpan.org/~eryq/MIME-tools-5.411a/
[1] http://python.active-venture.com/lib/node510.html


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