On 2000-05-27 21:49:21 -0400, John P. Verel wrote:
> Ah. So the issue is the sender, in this case
> presumably Lotus Notes.
Yes, it is, and it is complete and utter brain-damage on
Lotus' side. For some kind of handler, you may try the
attached shell script, which helps at least in some
situations.
(For storing the attachments, piping to uudecode is
entirely fine, though.)
--
http://www.guug.de/~roessler/
#!/bin/bash
##
## View X-Lotus-Notes attachments.
##
mimetypes=/usr/local/share/mime.types
metamail="/usr/local/bin/metamail -m mutt"
tmpdir=/tmp/lotus.$$
trap 'rm -rf $tmpdir' 0 1 2 3
mkdir $tmpdir || exit 1
## -B means that we are used in an autoview filter.
if [ "$1" = "-B" ] ; then
metamail="$metamail -B -x -q"
MAILCAPS=${MAILCAPS-$HOME/.mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap}
for i in `echo $MAILCAPS | tr : \ ` ; do
[ -f $i ] && { grep copiousoutput $i >> $tmpdir/mailcap ; }
done
export MAILCAPS=$tmpdir/mailcap
export MM_PAGER=cat
shift
else
metamail="$metamail -p"
fi
[ -z "$1" ] || { exec < $1 || exit 1 ; }
cd $tmpdir
cat > data
extension=`sed -n -e 's/^begin .*\.\([^.]*\)$/\1/p' data | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
tmpfile=data.$extension
sed -e "s/^begin .*\$/begin 600 $tmpfile/" data | uudecode
ctype=`awk '/^[^#]/ {
for(i = 2; i <= NF; i++) {
if($i == "'"$extension"'") {
printf("%s", $1);
exit;
}
}
}' $mimetypes`
if [ -z "$ctype" -o \( "$ctype" = "text/plain" \) ] ; then
recode ibmpc:latin1 $tmpfile
${MM_PAGER-less} $tmpfile
exit
fi
$metamail -b -c $ctype $tmpfile
