Reading attachment files

Question

Greetings,
When i do a 'ls -l mbox' all the messages in my inbox will appear as one big chunk of text.
I can write a script to limit what is read by finding a certain string specification in the subject feild.
But lets say these files that i need come with attachments and I cant see the attachment by just ls -l mbox.
I need to be able to read the files that are attached to my messages!
Help!

Answer 1

I've searched the net in and out to try and find some example relevent to my question.
I think my problem might involve decryption.
With this code:
cat mbox | sed -r 's/From /END====From /' | sed -n 'H; ${g;s/\n/+=+/g;p}' |\
sed 's/END====From/END\nFrom /g' |\
egrep ".*Subject: *hello*" |\
sed 's/+=+/\n/g' > helloFile
I can then go to emacs and view the contents of what i just appened to the helloFile file.
I can read the actual message, then further down in the text i get eennncryption, and i know that is the contents of the attachment .txt file
How can i decode this?
Content-Disposition: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=wow.txt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 help is very much appreciated
-Thanks
Last edited by oxoxo (2008-11-21 07:18:59)