[ale] Copy attachments

Ed Cashin ecashin at noserose.net
Fri Apr 30 09:59:36 EDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> In 2002 I used a program called ripmime.
>
> It only works on individual files so I had written a perl program to
> break up the mbox into files and then run ripmime against it.  Takes 3
> minutes and I now have 200M of attachments from one mailbox.

Another way to run a command on every message in an mbox
is "formail -s ...".  And you can use formail to remove duplicates
if you like.

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  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
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