On 01/10/2012 12:54 PM, John Wendel wrote: > On 01/09/2012 03:14 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 01/10/2012 06:06 AM, g wrote: >>> greetings, >>> >>> now that fedora project has started sending emails as; >>> >>> }} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >>> }} Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >>> >>> is there a way to convert emails back to text so that local >>> searching of >>> emails can be done? >>> >>> searching on "Subject:" seldom provides a means to find what a post is >>> actually about. >> You may have to do some splitting of the message to separate the encoded >> parts... But the encoded parts can always be un-encoded using something >> like the perl MIME::Base64 module. That module is not part of the >> distro, but could be gotten from CPAN. >> >> I've not looked at what they do since I've not had a need, but you can >> also investigate these that do come with as part of the distro. >> >> perl-Email-MIME >> perl-Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper >> perl-Email-MIME-ContentType >> perl-Email-MIME-Encodings >> >> >> > "man base64" should get you going. It's a little easier than the perl > stuff. > > It may be easier, where easier is a relative term, but it may not be as flexible in the overall scheme. I get the feeling the OP may want to re-assemble the messages into email format such that 2 copies of the message need not exist. Without doing more work, something like perl-Email-MIME would facilitate that or maybe even perl-Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper? It sounds like a fun project and then an interesting procmail recipe experiment. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams in "Mostly Harmless
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