On Jun 18, 2012, at 6:49 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 17.6.2012, at 18.19, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > >> Looking at the wiki and man pages I am unsure how to fetch email attachments >> from a unix shell. >> >> I have an "doveadm search" that returns the messages that have the >> attachments I am after. >> >> Would I loop through an "doveadm fetch" and use a commandline imap client to >> save the attachments and move the message to the Trash? >> >> Or is there a doveadm command for this? > > No, there's currently no easy way to do this. doveadm fetch doesn't support > that. You could possibly do this via IMAP, but it would be difficult to know > which MIME part to fetch. Actually it's not even obvious if a MIME part is an > attachment or not..
I used an imap client to create an imap folder named "unpack" , searched for the messages I needed and then moved them into the unpack folder. I then used munpack to unpack the messages from the unpack folder to a local disk directory. http://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/ Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
