[Wylug-help] Saving mail attachments from the command line

[Jim Jackson]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 16:13, Marc Jennings wrote:
> > Can anyone give me any pointers on whether it is possible to save email
> > attachments to disk* from a command line (and therefore cron job)
> > please?

check out the mpack/munpack software.

>
> mhn - part of the mh/nmh package.  Intended for use with an MH message
> store (looks like a news spool - one message per file, filenames are
> sequential numbers), however the -file option would accept a single
> message file (theres a chance you want to lose the leading From_ line
> off a mbox message).
>
> I see from the docs that the functionality you want is now in the
> mhstore program rather than the old all singing mhn proggy.
>
> Alternatively there are a load of bits of perl and other libraries which
> can do this, but may involve more initial pain.
>
> 	Nigel.
>
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