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Extract/save a mail attachment using bash

Using normal bash tools (ie, built-ins or commonly-available command-line tools), is it possible, and how to extract/save attachments on emails? For example, say I have a nightly report which ...
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How to save a Gmail attachment in a desired location on my hard drive using Chrome?

Recently, my workplace moved to Google services based environment, and that includes adapting Chrome as our default browser rather than IE. When using Gmail, I am trying to download a file I received ...
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Strip attachments from emails to disk but leave a link in the email to the attachment

I want to be able to strip attachments from emails and save them to disk. What I also want to do in addition to this is leave a link within the email to the attachment that was stripped out and saved ...
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Thunderbird attachments missing

I'm running Thunderbird 8 on Windows XP with no add-ons. I'm using an IMAP server. On some of the emails I am getting, there aren't attachments even though I have confirmed that attachments exists on ...
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Selecting and saving all .jpg attachments (and no others) using Mutt

I am using Mutt, and I have a message in my inbox with around ~1000 attachments, about 50% of which are .jpg files. I want to save all of those to a specified directory, leaving the other attachments ...
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11 answers
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Good solution to sending attachments via email

I have a lot of problems with sending attachments with my email, either the file can't be scanned for viruses so fails, or exceeds the filesize limit (2/5/10MB), or there are simply too many files (+...
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Mac Mail: Inline Attachments?

Let's say a user sends me e-mail with an attached file: attachment.txt, which contains the text This is the contents of attachment.txt!!!1one In Thunderbird, I would see a little icon labeled "...
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Prevent Nail from attaching my message as a .bin file?

When I pipe a very long change log into nail, I receive a blank email with a .bin attachment named ATT00001..bin in Outlook. The file is 36KB and contains the expected text but double spaced (...
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Is there a way to prevent Thunderbird from downloading attachments?

Is there a way to prevent Thunderbird from downloading attachments? I just want to download the message and leave attachments on the mail server. When I need to open the attachment I would then ...
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Are .eml attachments a security risk?

My email service provider blocks mails with attached .eml files, apparently for security reasons, with the result that I loose relevant mails. I have tried to find a description of the current ...
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Add attachment in Windows 8 mail

How can I send a file attachment from Windows 8 mail? I don't see any button anywhere.
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Reading an attachment that gmail doesn't render

I was recently sent an email attachment that Gmail doesn't render. It's very important that I get access to this attachment, but I can't for the life of me figure out how. I know that the attachment ...
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Compress an attachment in my mailclient inside my INBOX?

I got a lot of emails with uncompressed formats (like bmp, txt, ...) that I want to keep inside my IMAP-inbox, so I can access them from all my devices (Windows, Linux, ios, Android). Those emails ...
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How to do a mail merge with attachments

I'm trying to use MS Word and Outlook 2003 to send a bunch of emails with attachments but apparently this option is not allowed. ¿Any clean way to do this?
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Remove attachments from all emails in a folder (Outlook for Mac)

I'm looking for a tool to strip email attachments from my archived folders on Outlook for Mac (Version 16.20). I am aware that such a solution exists for PC users, but have not found anything for Mac ...
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