03-18-2005
I found a perfect solution, just in case anyone needs it in the future. It is a free program called UUDeview. There is both a windows version and a Unix version available for download at
http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/ (I hope I'm allowed to post a link on here, if not....forgive me). It gives you exact instructions on how to install it into Unix. To decode attachments of an email, you simply type the command and the file to be decoded (i.e. the mail spool file). The program will extract and decode all of the attachments, and save them to your directory with the same name as they were sent, Works like a charm!
Not only does it encode files encoded in base64, but it also decodes files encoded in BinHex, uuencoding, and xxencoding. The only setback is that when you send an attachment from yahoo, hotmail, etc, if the attachment is a regular text file or .cpp file, .java, etc, the files are not encoded, so the program does not extract these files because they are not encoded, but I will get around this by simply writing a script to extract the text files myself, and let the program do the rest.
Just figured I would put this info here just in case someone needs it in the future, which is probably very unlikely!
This User Gave Thanks to mskarica For This Post:
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello: Can anyone please decode this script in English. I have also made some comments which I know.. The actual script does not have one comment also..
#! /bin/ksh
. odbmsprd_env.ksh #setting the env..
echo $0 Started at : `date '+%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S'`
# what's echo $0
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ST2000
4 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Okay,
This is not something I've tried to do before, but what I want (need) to do is when a value is read in it gets changed to the value needed.
I've been given a list of ids that I need to check against the ids I have in my system, but as is the case we don't have the same naming convention... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nhatch
2 Replies
3. Programming
Hi,
I am having a file in below stucture:
header
{
subheader1
{
field1 : value
field2 : value
field3: value
} //end of subheader1
subheader2
{
subheader3
{
field4 : value
field5 : value
field6: value
}
subheader4 (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: kallol
6 Replies
4. Programming
Hi,
How to decode an image using openGL library libjpeg ..
which are the steps needed to do this using C language..
actually my work is to decode the image, store it on the buffer,
and place it on cube surface..
please guide me,,any answer will appreciated .. (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravikishore
8 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings,
I am doing something that I don't know if it is possible...
I have a file with a line looks like this:
<%s \n%s / %s \n%s \n>
and I am trying to replace this line with
<%s \n%s \n%s / %s \n%s \n>
in Shell script with sed command...
StringToReplace='%s \n%s / %s \n%s \n'... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: wasabihowdi
2 Replies
6. Linux
What will the below statement do ?:confused:
&&
{
&& {eval `/bin/setup 1`} || && { VAR="/tmp" }
export $VAR;
} (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: krishnaux
3 Replies
7. AIX
I have a file type of: executable (RISC System/6000 V3.1) or obj module not stripped
How can I decode it? I know that this may be somewhat involved, but if you could steer me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. Thanks! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gg48gg
2 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI experts....I am trying to decode some text files... I need little help from you people...file is of mixed type...from generated from windows based system
my text files looks like this...
2.AUBZ 158 1 11 116204310 6 N 7542 E 18
02846 52833 102821 152815 ... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Akshay Hegde
9 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I have an encoded file and I wish to see what is written inside.
The first line is given below:
eval "$(dd if=$0 bs=1 skip=69 2>/dev/null|gpg -d 2>/dev/null)"; exit
PS: When I google above code, it says that command is use for encryption...
Following lines include many strange... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: baris35
2 Replies
10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
hi
i have this file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OnDemand xmlns="http://xsd.telecomitalia.it/Schema/crmws.entity.OnDemand"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xsd.telecomitalia.it/Schema/crmws.entity.OnDemand... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Francesco_IT
2 Replies
TNEF(1) General Commands Manual TNEF(1)
NAME
tnef - decode Microsoft's Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
SYNOPSIS
tnef [options] [FILE]
tnef {--help | --version}
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the tnef filter. tnef decodes e-mail attachments encoded in Microsoft's Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
(hereafter, TNEF), which "wraps" Microsoft e-mail attachments.
Unfortunately, these "wrapped" attachments are inaccessible to any e-mail client that does not understand TNEF. Fortunately, the tnef fil-
ter can be used by any MIME-aware client to unpack these attachments.
OPTIONS
-f FILE, --file=FILE
use FILE as input ('-' denotes stdin). When this option is omitted, tnef reads data from stdin.
-C DIR, --directory=DIR
unpack file attachments into DIR.
-x SIZE, --maxsize=SIZE
limit maximum size of extracted archive (bytes)
-t, --list
list attached files, do not extract.
-w, --interactive, --confirmation
ask for confirmation for every action.
--overwrite
when extracting attachments, overwrite existing files.
--number-backups
when extracting attachments, if file FOO will be overwritten, create FOO.n instead.
--use-paths
honor file pathnames specified in the TNEF attachment. For security reasons, paths to attached files are ignored by default.
--save-body FILE
Save message body data found in the TNEF data. There can be up to three message bodies in the file, plain text, HTML encoded, and
RTF encoded. Which are saved is specified by the --body-pref option. By default the message bodies are written to a file named
message with an extension based upon the type (txt, html, rtf).
--body-pref PREF
Specifies which of the possibly three message body formats will be saved. PREF can be up to three characters long and each charac-
ter must be one of 'r', 'h', or 't' specifying RTF, HTML or text. The order is the order that the data will be checked, the first
type found will be saved. If PREF is the special value of 'all' then any and all message body data found will be saved. The
default is 'rht'.
--save-rtf FILE
DEPRECATED. Equivalent to --save-body=FILE --body-pref=r
-h, --help
show usage message.
-V, --version
display version and copyright.
-v, --verbose
produce verbose output.
--debug
enable debug output.
EXAMPLE
The following example demonstrates typical tnef usage with a popular Unix mail client called "mutt".
Step 1 -- Configure ~/.mailcap
Mutt can't use tnef for its intended purpose until an appropriate content type definition exists in ~/.mailcap . Here's a sample defini-
tion:
application/ms-tnef; tnef -w %s
This mailcap entry says that whenever the MIME content type:
application/ms-tnef
is encountered, use this command to decode it:
tnef -w %s
The latter command string invokes tnef, specifying both the -w option and the attachment (created as a temporary file) as command line
arguments.
Step 2 -- Add The Filter To $PATH
Mutt can't invoke tnef if the filter isn't accessible via $PATH.
Step 3 -- Test Mutt
Use mutt to read a message that includes a TNEF attachment. Mutt will note that an attachment of type "application/ms-tnef is unsup-
ported".
Press the "v" key to open mutt's "view attachment" menu.
Move the cursor over the TNEF attachment and press the enter key to "view" the attachment. Mutt will launch tnef and invoke it using the
command line syntax specified in ~/.mailcap (step 1). tnef then decodes all file(s) included in the TNEF attachment, prompting for confir-
mation prior to creating an individual file (refer to -w option above). -w is useful here because it gives the end user a chance to view
the filename(s) included in the mail message.
Note that Mutt's attachment menu also supports a pipe option, which permits the user to pipe attachments to an external filter (how conve-
nient). So, to list the contents of a TNEF attachment prior to decoding it, press the "|" key and enter this command:
tnef -t
SEE ALSO
metamail(1), mailcap(4), mutt(1), other email clients.
AUTHOR
Mark Simpson.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to Mark Simpson <verdammelt@users.sourceforge.net>
OTHER REFERENCES
This web page:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q136/2/04.asp
describes how to configure Microsoft email clients so that the TNEF format is disabled when sending messages to non-TNEF-compatible
clients.
Filter TNEF MIME Decoder TNEF(1)