On Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:51:17 +0100 (MET) jonas(_at_)coyote(_dot_)eu(_dot_)org
(Jonas
Oberg) wrote:
I receive quite a lot of soundfiles from a source via e-mail, all
of them is uuencoded. Is it possible to use procmail to automatically
decode these binaries, place them in a special subdirectory and remove
the e-mail?
I've included two recipes below.
Keep in mind that you need to do additional procesing to remove any text
outside the begin/end lines, before passing the text to uudecode.
uudecode will choke if if encounters lines that are not part of the
uuencoded data. Something like:
awk '/begin/,/end/'
Should do the trick.
The first recipe is trivial. It checks for the begin and end lines, and
if they're both there, pipes the message through uudeocde via awk.
# This checks the message body for a 'begin' line, and if it finds one
# uudecodes the message.
:0bDB
* ^begin
* ^end$
| (cd files_directory; awk '/begin/,/end/' | uuconvert)
The second recipe uses a slightly more stringent test -- the message
must have at least 3 lines beginning with 'M' to be considered a
uuencoded message.
# This recipes uses a slightly stronger check to detect a uuencoded
message
# It looks for begin & end lines and *at least* two lines beginning with
'M'.
:0bDB
* -1^0
* ^begin
* ^end$
* 1^1 ^M
| (cd files_directory; awk '/begin/,/end/' | uuconvert)
Enjoy,
-- Lars
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