uuencode to MIME email attachment converter?


 
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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. Smilie
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Net::IMAP::Client::MsgAddress(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			Net::IMAP::Client::MsgAddress(3pm)

NAME
Net::IMAP::Client::MsgAddress - email address object DESCRIPTION
Represents one email address as returned in an ENVELOPE part of the FETCH command. When used in string context, this object magically translates to "Full Name <email@address.com>". METHODS
"new" # constructor Creates a new object from the given array. name Returns the full name, if any at_domain_list Returns the "at_domain_list" part (WTF is that?) mailbox Returns the mailbox name (i.e. the 'email' part in the example above). host Returns the host name (i.e. the 'address.com' part). email Returns the full email address: "$self-"{mailbox} . '@' . $self->{host}>. as_string Used by stringification. It returns the full name and email address as in "Full Name <email@address.com>". SEE ALSO
Net::IMAP::Client, Net::IMAP::Client::MsgSummary AUTHOR
Mihai Bazon, <mihai.bazon@gmail.com> http://www.dynarchlib.com/ http://www.bazon.net/mishoo/ COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) Mihai Bazon 2008. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
BECAUSE THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE AS PERMITTED BY THE ABOVE LICENCE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. perl v5.12.4 2011-08-28 Net::IMAP::Client::MsgAddress(3pm)