<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>That's base64 encoded. Do this:<br><br></div>1. Copy the file out of the queue<br></div>2. Open it up in a text editor and remove everything except the encoded junk<br></div>3. Run: base64 -d encoded_junk_file > thisisthe.pdf<br>
<div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>❧ Brian Mathis</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com" target="_blank">JLightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">OK – Given I have unsent email in /var/spool/mqueue how can I extract an attachment from the file?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Note I am NOT asking how to SEND attachments – the attachment is already in the file. What I can’t figure out is how I could get just the attachment and either view it on the local host or forward it in a new email.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So for example for a given message I have two files:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-rw------- 1 root smmsp 332042 Aug 15 10:58 dfr7FEwI9R025512<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-rw------- 1 root smmsp 1163 Aug 15 14:02 qfr7FEwI9R025512<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The qfr is the one with the original header information.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The dfr is the one with the actual mail body which in this case is mainly a pdf attachment.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What I see in the dfr is something along the lines of:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">------=_Part_288_32765629.1376578698499<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Your Doc<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">------=_Part_288_32765629.1376578698499<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Content-Type: application/pdf;<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> name=thisisthe.pdf<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Content-Disposition: attachment;<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> filename=thisisthe.pdf<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">KTYMCLi0xLjQKJaqrrK0KNCAwIG9iago8PAovQ3JlYXRvciAoQXBhY2hlIEZPUCBWZXJzaW9ujclis<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">KCkZL1Byb2R1Y2VyIChBcGFjaGUgRk9QIFZlcnNpb24gMS4wKQovQ3JlYXRpb25EYXRlIChEOjkm<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">QTMwOKE1MTA1ODE3LTA0JzAwJykKPj4KZW5kb2JqCjUgMCBvYmoKPDwKICAvTiAzCiAgL0xlbill0<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">------=_Part_288_32765629.1376578698499—<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is a lot more between the “ Part_288” lines that I’ve left out.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So my question is how could I get the “thisisthe.pdf” file to actually be a pdf that I could open?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I tried using mutt’s –a facility with just the encoded stuff but no go. Using it with just the stuff after Your Doc is no go. Web search just gives me hit after hit about either how to read an attachment after it has been delivered
or how to send an attachment in the first place and neither of those is my question.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Again my question is how to get the EXISTING attachment out of the /var/spool/mqueue files.<u></u><u></u></p>
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