On Thu 03 Apr 2008 12:11:55 NZDT +1300, Douglas Royds wrote: > This fails your "does not create random files on disk" requirement, but you > can use munpack to expand a multi-part MIME email into (ahem) multiple > files on disk: > > munpack -tC randomFilesOnDisk/ ~/multipart.eml
That would be pretty much the same to metamail's env METAMAIL_TMPDIR=. metamail -w -x -q Which creates an unknown number of files, hopefully all in the designated place. Scripting a junk yard area for this isn't too difficult, but not ideal. Jim's suggestion http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html is yet another reason to learn python. This got me thinking whether maildrop (something similar to procmail) can split mime parts - it doesn't, but there's a reformime close by which can. reformime -i display mime structure of email on stdin reformime -s 1.2 -e extract mime section 1.2 of stdin to stdout In case the mime section number is variable, the output of -i could be easily parsed. Thanks all, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
