From: jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) Subject: Re: Way to auto-strip headers from uuencoded mail Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 12:24:47 GMT
e-mail replies directed to my alternate e-mail address....read on and
you'll understand why.
In article <RLM.93Apr22063641@helen.surfcty.com> rlm@helen.surfcty.com
(Robert L. McMillin) writes:
>Is there a program that will automatically strip headers from uuencoded
>mail?
I've got a program that someone sent me years ago, that was (I think) posted
to one of the .sources groups, called uucat. it's done the job for me for
everything I've needed. works very nicely. I always used to hear people
in other groups complaining about standard formats for uuencoded stuff, and
how their re-building program doesn't like this or that, but uucat has
always handled it all without a care in the world....
usage would be something like:
<prompt> $ uucat foo.1 foo.2 foo.3 ... foo.n-1 foo.n | uudecode
if someone with ftp access would e-mail me, I can mail them a copy and they
can put it on one of the Linux sites (or more?). HOWEVER, DO NOT MAIL ME
AT THIS ADDRESS REGARDING THIS....my UUCP feed site here gets his feed via
long distance, and I'd rather not clutter it up with more e-mail than I
already get (rather a lot), particularly when there might be a large volume
of mail. if you can ftp the uucat source to one of the archive sites, drop
me a one-liner to my other e-mail address, grahj@gagme.chi.il.us (checked
every few days...well, at least once a week, when I'm expecting mail
there...that's a long distance call for me).
>Better yet, does one exist that will automatically parse mail
>files for uuencoded binaries from ftpmail sites?
don't know how you'd do this, but I'm sure you could setup procmail to do
this.... I've never really looked into procmail much (yet), but I sort of
got the impression it could even clean your house, do the dishes, and take
out the trash if you programmed it to....
--jim