[johnlr]

Originally Posted by telv

I don't know of any attachment extracting utils, as I generally deal with windows not linux.

I use uudeview for this. It's probably not installed by default though


UUDEVIEW(1) UUDEVIEW(1)

NAME
UUDeview - a powerful decoder for binary files

SYNOPSIS
uudeview [options] [@file] file(s)

DESCRIPTION
UUDeview is a smart decoder for attachments that you have received in
encoded form via electronic mail or from the usenet. It is similar to
the standard uudecode(1) command, yet with more comfort and flexibil‐
ity. UUDeview supports the uuencoding, xxencoding, Base64, yEncoding
and BinHex encoding methods, and is able to handle split-files (which
have been sent in multiple parts) as well as multiple files at once,
thus greatly simplifying the decoding process. Usually, you will not
have to manually edit files to prepare them for decoding.

After invoking uudeview, it will scan all given files for encoded data,
sort them and their parts and then present you with the list of files
that seem like they can be decoded properly. You can then pick files
individually for decoding.

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