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Downloading attachments from an email through a shell script.

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Oct 10th, 2008
Hi,

I need to download email attachments using shell scripts. How to achieve this as I am a newbie in Linux/Unix environment?

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Re: Downloading attachments from an email through a shell script.

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Oct 10th, 2008
Hey There,

Check out either uuencode/uudecode (for uuencoded attachments) or the freely available mpack/munpack binaries, for MIME attachments.

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