Hi all,
> I have the need to encode and decode MIME email attachments within a
> script on a Solaris v2.7 box.
>
> On my Linux machine a package called metamail contains tools that allow
> me to do this. Is there an equivalent package for Sun? I have tried
> compiling the metamail source code under Solaris, however I have been
> unsuccessful so far.
>
> What is the "correct" way to handle MIME encoding or decoding under
> Solaris?
I got a number of responses on this one.
There are two packages that will do the job, metamail and mpack.
Metamail is designed to offer full MIME attachment handling to email
frontends, and has a number of features. Mpack on the other hand is
designed to simply pack and unpack a single binary attachment into a
MIME compliant text file, and optionally email the file or post it to a
newsgroup.
As the simplest option we chose mpack.
Metamail v2.7 is quite an old package, and needs a tweaked Makefile to
compile under Solaris v2.7. The Makefile is attached.
Mpack v1.5 compilation requires that the int getopt(ac, av, opts)
function inside the file getopt.c be removed, as the existing Solaris
v2.7 version of the routine works fine.
Thanks to the following people for replies:
Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>
Harvey Wamboldt <harvey@iotek.ns.ca>
anders@hmi.de (Thomas Anders)
Tim Evans <tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com>
Roger Fujii <rmf@unixbox.lookhere.com>
Marina.Daniels@cs.tas.gov.au (Marina Daniels)
Regards,
Graham
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install: basics
basics::
(cd metamail ; $(MAKE) CONFIGDIR=../${CONFIGDIR} CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CC="${CC}" LDLIBS="${LDLIBS}")
-${RM} bin/metamail
(cd bin; ${LN} ../metamail/metamail metamail)
-${RM} bin/mmencode
(cd bin; ${LN} ../metamail/mmencode mmencode)
-${RM} bin/mimencode
(cd bin; ${LN} ../metamail/mmencode mimencode)
-${RM} man/mimencode.1
(cd man; ${LN} ../man/mmencode.1 mimencode.1)
-${RM} bin/mailto
(cd bin; ${LN} ../metamail/mailto mailto)
-${RM} bin/splitmail
(cd bin; ${LN} ../metamail/splitmail splitmail)
(cd richmail ; $(MAKE) CONFIGDIR=../${CONFIGDIR} CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CC="${CC}" LDLIBS="${LDLIBS}")
-${RM} bin/richtext
(cd bin; ${LN} ../richmail/richtext richtext)
-${RM} bin/richtoatk
(cd bin; ${LN} ../richmail/richtoatk richtoatk)
(cd fonts ; $(MAKE) CONFIGDIR=../${CONFIGDIR} CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CC="${CC}" LDLIBS="${LDLIBS}" FONTSUFFIX="${FONTSUFFIX}")
-${RM} bin/shownonascii
(cd bin; ${LN} ../fonts/shownonascii shownonascii)
-${RM} bin/mailto-hebrew
(cd bin; ${LN} ../fonts/mailto-hebrew mailto-hebrew)
install-all: basics
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for file in *; \
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echo "installing binary $$target"; \
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@(cd man; \
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@(cd man; \
for file in *.4; \
do \
target=$(MAN4DIR)/`basename $$file .4`.$(MAN4EXT); \
echo "installing man page $$target";\
${CP} $$file $$target; \
done)
@echo "Renaming old mailcap file to $(MAILCAPDIR)/mailcap.old
-mv $(MAILCAPDIR)/mailcap $(MAILCAPDIR)/mailcap.old
@echo "installing file $(MAILCAPDIR)/mailcap"
${CP} mailcap $(MAILCAPDIR)
uninstall-all:
@(cd bin; \
for file in *; \
do \
target=$(LOCALBINDIR)/$$file; \
echo "rm-ing binary $$target";\
${RM} $(LOCALBINDIR)/$$file; \
done)
@(cd man; \
for file in *.1; \
do \
target=$(MAN1DIR)/`basename $$file .1`.$(MAN1EXT); \
echo "rm-ing man page $$target";\
${RM} $$target; \
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@(cd man; \
for file in *.4; \
do \
target=$(MAN4DIR)/`basename $$file .4`.$(MAN4EXT); \
echo "rm-ing man page $$target";\
${RM} $$target; \
done)
@echo "rm-ing file $(MAILCAPDIR)/mailcap"
@${RM} $(MAILCAPDIR)/mailcap
clean:
-${RM} -rf *.BAK
(cd metamail ; $(MAKE) clean)
(cd richmail ; $(MAKE) clean)
(cd fonts ; $(MAKE) FONTSUFFIX="${FONTSUFFIX}" clean)
cleanbin:
-${RM} bin/metamail
-${RM} bin/mmencode
-${RM} bin/mimencode
-${RM} bin/mailto
-${RM} bin/splitmail
-${RM} bin/richtext
-${RM} bin/richtoatk
-${RM} bin/shownonascii
-${RM} bin/mailto-hebrew
cleanman:
-${RM} man/mimencode.1
clobber: clean cleanambin cleanbin cleanman
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