[ale] Extracting from EXISTING /var/spool/mqueue file

[JD]

Just a thought.

You could grab that single file, take it to a current desktop system, load up
those tools ... profit.


On 08/16/2013 11:22 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Thanks Mike and Chris.
> 
> Neither uudeview nor mimeexplode is found in the RHEL5 repositories I was doing this on.
> 
> It appears mimexplode is a perl script relying on MIME::Tools and found an RPM for the latter in the EPEL but it has other dependencies so I'd have to spend some time locating/adding those as well.  (I prefer to do PM installs via rpm rather than CPAN just so they shows up in software listings later.)    I didn't pursue it as I have to move on and have already solved my immediate need with base64 which was already installed.
> 
> I didn't investigate uudeview beyond determining it isn't in the RHEL5 repositories.
> 
> I'll keep both in mind should I find further needs in future.  It appears MIME::Tools does quite a bit.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Chris Ricker
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 9:02 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Extracting from EXISTING /var/spool/mqueue file
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> On 8/16/13 5:53 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 22:33 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote:
>>> That's base64 encoded.  Do this:
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. Copy the file out of the queue
>>>
>>> 2. Open it up in a text editor and remove everything except the
>>> encoded junk
>>>
>>> 3. Run: base64 -d encoded_junk_file > thisisthe.pdf
>>>
>> That will probably work just fine but you may also try "mimeexplode",
>> which will unpack the separated Mime attachments into directories and
>> files.  He did say there were two attachments and it looked like it
>> was nested Mime.
> uudeview is a similar application that may be useful for this _______________________________________________
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