Attachment extractor

[howardkaikow]

Are there any programs for extracting, but not deleting, attachments in a mailbox?

I found Attachment Extractorthat runs in Thunderbird on Windows. Author does not know whether it would also work in Linux.

However, I would prefer an extractor that can work outside of the email program, i.e., just parse a particular mailbox file.

Such a program would likely work with the file format used by at least Thunderbird and Eudora, and, I guess, other sendmail compatible formats.

[wildpossum]

You could write your own BASH script to do the same thing.

Have a look at:
BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO
and
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

When your got it all running, contribute it back to the Linux Community.

[Mirza Nevjestic]

Like wildpossum said, go to http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/