Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:45:32 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Martin McCormick <martin@x.it.okstate.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail Decoding Mime Messages Message-ID: <44y5c6zptv.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20130425000436.5b999ba5.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:04:36 %2B0200") References: <201304242107.r3OL7Z55094161@x.it.okstate.edu> <20130425000436.5b999ba5.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:35 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: >> Is there a filter that one can run in procmail in which >> base64 encoded data go in and text comes out so one can allow >> procmailrc to do its work? >> [...] >> Is there anything which will take a raw email message >> and spit out linear strings which can be processed like normal >> text? > > I think this is possible with uudecode, in this case b64decode. > See "man uuencode" for more information. uuencode predates MIME. Although there are MIME types defined for it, the base-system tools don't handle the MIME headers or section marking. For this purpose, a MIME-aware tool (such as ripmime, or metamail, or mmencode) will be much more useful as part of an automated filtering system.
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