How to extract/save an email attachment in HPUX 11.23?

[Jan Shu]

Hi All,

I sent a MS Outlook email with several TEXT attachment files to a HPUX 11.23 server. How to extract/save these attachmenet files to /home/oracle folder? Should I use "mail" command? Can you please help?

Thank you.

Regards,
Jan Shu

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] email with several TEXT attachment
> files [...]

Normally, this would mean that you have a
MIME e-mail message.

I don't get e-mail on an HP-UX system so I
know nothing, but for interactive use, I'd
expect an e-mail-capable Web browser to be
able to handle a MIME message. Or any other
reasonably modern e-mail client program,
like, say, "elm". For non-interactive use,
I'd look into a program like "mpack"
(specifically, its "munpack" component).

[Dennis Handly]

>How to extract/save these attachment files to /home/oracle folder?

Do you have thunderbird installed? Use it directly or you could use mailx to save the message in the thunderbird folder then use thunderbird to do fancy stuff.

[VK2COT · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Others already gave you some pointers.

More possibilities (because Unix
is very flexible):

a) Procmail recipes. Example in
.procmailrc:

:0 c
*
| munpack -q -C ~oracle/files/

b) ripMIME:

http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/

c) Perl scripts that use MIME::Parser.
One of them is here:

http://zombiechow.com/lookatme.txt

d) Mimedump:

http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/EL/ELIJAH/mimedump

e) And another Perl script - unmime:

http://tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=4138

f) Write mutt filter. For example,
save this into muttrc:

# macro to save all picture attachments
set pipe_decode = no
macro index A "| munpack -C ~oracle/mydir\n"
macro pager A "| munpack -C ~oracle/mydir\n"

Then, when you select a message in index
mode or pager mode, you can hit "A" and it
will save all attachments to ~oracle/mydir.

It has been a long time since I last
had mailboxes on Unix servers (Linux excluded), so maybe there are other options
too.

Cheers,

VK2COT

[Jan Shu]

Dear All, Thank you for your helpful information.

Dear VK2COT,
I will try the solutions you provided. Hope they are easy to use :-)
HP CE suggests mutt:Here is a ported version for HP-UX:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Mail/mutt-1.5.20/

Have a great weekend.

Best Regards,
Jan