Re: Replacement for "mimedecode" wanted

Udi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.procmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 27/03/11 23:54, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> I use since many years "mimedecode" in my scripts  and  it  was  working
> perfectly up the Debian/Lenny.  OK, some weird mails trigered a malloc()
> error.
>
> Now since Debian/Squeeze it is droped and there is no replacement.
>
> Since I need it in bashscripts which are called from  my  ~/.procmailrc,
> I can not use pure procmail stuff.
>
> Can someone recommend me an equivalent commandline tool please?
>
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
>      Michelle Konzack
>
>    

     My man page (CentOs)  mention that in some cases  "mimencode"
     is named  "mmencode".   Also,  mimencode -u   used for decoding.

     Maybe Debian just change the names of the programs?   In this case
     symbolic link will resolve the problem.

--udi
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