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uuencode to MIME email attachment converter?

Hello all, we have an IMAP email system here that basically uses email as the transport for a transaction processing system. Users submit their transaction via an email, and our in-house application pulls the emails from the IMAP server and processes the transaction.

Our problem is that we have some users who are submitting emails with a uuencoded attachment. Our application does not support uuencode, it only supports MIME encoded attachments. Obviously the best solution here is to get those users to fix the mail client on their end. But for political reasons, that's a bit tricky.

My question for the group, is does anyone know of a shell script, perl script, or otherwise, that will accept an email as input, convert any uuencode attachments to MIME attachments, then output the complete email to stdout? I'd like to perform this conversion automatically via a procmail recipe...

It's an odd problem, I know.

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script-email

SCRIPT-EMAIL(8) 					  System Administration Commands					   SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)

NAME

       script-email - Amanda script to send email notifications

DESCRIPTION

       script-email is an Amanda script implementing the Script API. It should not be run by users directly. It sends a notification email to the
       addresses specified in the MAILTO property.

PROPERTIES

       This section lists the properties that control script-email's functionality. See amanda-scripts(7) for information on the Script API,
       script configuration.

       MAILTO

	   List of email addresses that will receive an email on command execution. It is a multi-valued property:
	     property "MAILTO" "amanda@domain.com" "sysadmin@domain.com" "amandauser@domain.com"

EXAMPLE

       In this example, script-email is scheduled to be run before the DLE, on the server.  The unqualified email address amanda will be passed to
       the email system unchanged.  The script is then attached to a dumptype, which can then be specified for any DLEs which require
       notification.
	define script-tool pre-email {
	  comment "email me before this DLE is backed up"
	  plugin  "script-email"
	  execute-on pre-dle-backup
	  execute-where server
	  property "mailto" "amanda"
	}

	define dumptype user-tar-email {
	  user-tar
	  script "pre-email"
	}

SEE ALSO

       amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amanda-client.conf(5), amanda-scripts(7)

       The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

AUTHORS

       Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com>
	   Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

       Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
	   Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

Amanda 3.3.1							    02/21/2012							   SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)