[ale] Copy attachments

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Thu Apr 29 10:15:27 EDT 2010


In 2002 I used a program called ripmime.  

It only works on individual files so I had written a perl program to
break up the mbox into files and then run ripmime against it.  Takes 3
minutes and I now have 200M of attachments from one mailbox.

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 07:33 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Chris Fowler wrote:
> > Is there a program I can run on a mbox file and get all the attachments
> > in any email that is in that file?
> >
> > Chris
> >
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> It's a roundabout way but hypermail will convert the mail into separate 
> html documents and spin off the attachments as separate files.  It would 
> be trivial to gather the attachements at that point with a bash script.
> 
> Jim.
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