munpack part of the mpack package. sudo apt-get install mpack
There are also facilities for dealing with base64 in the ssl/ssh facilities. man page @ http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/enc.html 2009/6/6 Andrew Errington <[email protected]> > Hello, > > I have snagged a mailbox file from another user, and I wish to extract an > attachment contained within it. > > The file has a long cryptic name, and I can see the headers, body and > attachments within it: > > Content-Type: application/msword; name="interestingfile.doc" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="interestingfile.doc" > > I have hunted everywhere for something to split and decode the attachment > into a standalone file, but can find nothing. There is a package called > maildir-utils in existence, but I don't know if it does what I want, and > it's not in my distro's repository anyway (Mepis 8.0). > > Perhaps it is too simple to document? Yes I could chop the file at the > boundaries of the attachment, but what tool to decode it? Even if it's > simple, please put me out of my misery. > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
