On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:49 +0000, Don McLaughlin wrote:
> I'd appreciate any pointers to some command-line tools for doing the
> following.
>
> (1) Take mail and news messages as input files and produce as output
> files the same messages but with all the attachments, HTML parts,
> and other non-plain-text stuff deleted, keeping the headers and
> the plain-text of the body, as if the sender had written the
> message without attachments or HTML.
>
> What I really want to do is use maildirs and news spools as input
> and produce a directory of cleaned files, which will then be used
> for corpus linguistics. But if I can find a straight filter
> program (stdin, stdout) and I can write a script to find -exec it.
>
> I looked at mimefilter but I don't want to generate outgoing
> messages to the senders and all that.
>
>
> (2) Take a mail message file as input and output a directory
> containing separate files of the decoded attachments and the text
> of the message (preferably with the mail headers).
>
> This would be for archiving my own e-mail.
Maybe this would help.
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