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Old 07-05-2011
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. Smilie
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NAME

       rt-email-group-admin - Command line tool for administrating NotifyGroup actions

SYNOPSIS

	   rt-email-group-admin --list
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DESCRIPTION

       This script list, create, modify or delete scrip actions in the RT DB. Once you've created an action you can use it in a scrip.

       For example you can create the following action using this script:

	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify developers' --group 'Development Team'

       Then you can add the followoing scrip to your Bugs queue:

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USAGE

       rt-email-group-admin --COMMAND ARGS

COMMANDS

   list
       Lists actions and its descriptions.

   create NAME [--comment] [--group GNAME] [--user UNAME]
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   add NAME [--group GNAME] [--user UNAME]
       Adds groups and/or users to recipients of the action NAME.

   delete NAME
       Deletes action NAME if scrips doesn't use it.

   switch NAME
       Switch action NAME from notify as correspondence to comment and back.

   rename NAME --newname NEWNAME
       Renames action NAME to NEWNAME.

   NOTES
       If command has option --group or --user then you can use it more then once, if other is not specified.

AUTHOR

       Ruslan U. Zakirov <ruz@bestpractical.com>

SEE ALSO

       RT::Action::NotifyGroup, RT::Action::NotifyGroupAsComment

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