Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] technical help wanted
From: Arne Helme <Arne.Helme@stelvio.nl>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:02:05 +0100

Brian,

a program called 'uudeview', contains the functionality you are looking for!  
It decodes both MIME attachments and UU encoded files.  I use uudeview with 
the EXMH mailer in combination with OpenSSL to decode S/MIME attachments :-).

Regards,

- -- Arne


In message <5086466.1009482160@pool0107.cvx32-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net>, 
Brian Reid writes:
>I've decided that I'm going to make a LUG PAW server that people can mail 
>their photos to, open free of charge to any memeber of the LUG, because I 
>think that this PAW concept is truly great. I think that the biggest single 
>impediment to more people doing PAW is the problem of getting and maintaining 
>a web site, so if I automate that and make it open to everyone, then nobody 
>will have an excuse not to take more pictures.
>
>I've worked out in my head how to do it, but there's one piece of technology 
>that I don't know how to do, and before I go waste a week trawling 
>SourceForge and Google and reading manuals, I thought I'd ask the group.
>
>I need a Unix program that can input a MIME file and emit the attachments. 
>I'd prefer it not be written in Perl because then I'd have to learn Perl, 
>which I've successfully avoided for 20 years. Howver, as long as it's 
>callable from the shell, I guess I shouldn't look inside.
>
>Basically I want to say
>	mkdir foo.dir
>	extractAttachments foo.dir < mail-message.txt
>and have foo.dir contain all of the jpegs, viruses, hoaxes, TNEFs, and other 
>junk that people attach. Once I have a binary jpeg in foo.dir I know how to 
>find it and take it from there, using netpbm.
>
>(Yes, Virginia, I want to do this with shell scripts. I am good at ignoring 
>the scorn that people heap on me for my love of shell scripts.)
>
>I'm looking for a magic bullet in "extractAttachments". I'm sure that 
>somewhere on the net somebody has a library function that will do this, but 
>unless it's a library for a language that I know, it won't do me any good.
>
>On the other hand, if anybody wants to do the whole thing, I'll happily 
>provide the internet server and all the network code you can eat. My only 
>requirement is that it's got to run in my server environment, which is 
>FreeBSD 4.4/Apache 1.3.22
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