Re: Munging mailboxes

[Sam Roberts]

Hi Alain,

did you forget to commit mimetest.c? I can't find it, do I have some
kind of cvs problem?

Bon matin,
Sam

Quoting Alain Magloire <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> > 
> > On Saturday 15 December 2001 23:02, Sam Roberts wrote:
> > > Bonjour,
> > >
> > > Quoting Michael Schuerig <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> > > > I'm interested in mailutils mostly for its mailbox/folder handling
> > > > capabilities. Tasks I'd like to use it for are similar to this:
> > > > Extract attachments from each message in a folder; save it to a
> > > > file in some given directory; replace the attachment part of the
> > > > original message with a link to the saved file.
> > >
> > > mailutils hasn't been used for this kind of thing a lot, AFAIK, so
> > > the APIs aren't always there, or publically exposed, or documented.
> > 
> > Hm, I think, then, a good strategy for me is to just wait. I don't want 
> 
> 8-)
> The project is still work in progress, and making good progress.
> 
> > to go into mailutils core development, and fortunately I'm not in a 
> > hurry doing the mailbox stuff.
> 
> For what is worth, I've commited in mailutils/examples/mimetest.c
> an example to do the kind of stuff you want.
> The example(mimetest) will print out the entire mailbox, indenting
> the subparts of messages, with some headers. If there is an attachment
> it will save it in the current director, if there is no name for
> the attachment it will create a temporary file "msg-xxx".
> 
> Credits should go to Dave Inglis, he wrote the orignal code
> with the mime parsing stuff.
-- 
Sam Roberts <address@hidden> (Vivez sans temps mort!)