On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:40:51 -0500, Dr Skip wrote:

> What does one use in Linux to read a single email file and possibly
> get the attachments out? Everything I've looked at is a mailreader
> kind of thing that demands setting up accounts first and deciding on
> its own directory structure. I just need to look at a maildir type
> file and view it as intended. :o

Evening again, Skip.

I used to use 'mail' (completely text-based and directly manipulates the
spool files you're on about), which tends to be part of a sendmail or
exim or mailtools or some other dummy package.  I now use Evolution,
which seems to be the default on Fedora and Ubuntu, and probably a whole
host of other flavours too.  It's sort-of like Outlook.  It can also
read native spool files.

For extracting attachments from the command-line (from single messages,
not spool files), check out 'munpack' (and its counterpart 'mpack').
There's also 'uuencode' and 'uudecode', but I don't see that many of
those encodings personally - it all tends to be MIME now.

Regards,

Pete Restall

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