MIME-able mail2fax solution anywhere?

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In article <m0yRB0j-0005QeC@greenie.muc.de> you wrote:
: Hi,
: 
: Robert J. Brown wrote:
: > >>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:
: > 
: >     Gert> Hi, Wolfgang Bartsch wrote:
: >     >> I'm looking for a mail-to-fax solution which is able to extract
: >     >> mime attachments, converts them and include them in the fax?
: > 
: >     Gert> This is something I've been looking for since a couple of
: >     Gert> years... - basically, I'm missing a "generic MIME ->
: >     Gert> postscript filter", conversion to fax is easy from then.
: > 
: > Perhaps a modification of the magicfilter print spooling filter
: > package would do the trick?  It is pretty flexible, handling dvi, gif, 
: > jpeg, ascii, and postscript, along with gzip and compress compression, 
: > etc.
: 
: Won't help -- you've got to extract the MIME stuff first.  The rest is
: easy (faxspool converts dvi, gif, ascii, postscript since years :-) ).


Hello Gerd,

sorry to write direct to you but I'm reading your
mailinglist via newsgroup de.alt.comm.mgetty and
I don't know if my posting would gone to your
list.

Under Linux have a look at 'uudeview'.

I've wrote a mail to myself.
Let's have a look at the header and body (shortened).


MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED;
BOUNDARY="-2111015424-1245330431-893265259=:307"

---2111015424-1245330431-893265259=:307
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
[..]
---2111015424-1245330431-893265259=:307
Content-Type: IMAGE/GIF; name="62125.gif"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
[..]
---2111015424-1245330431-893265259=:307--


As you can see there is a plain text and a picture included.
Now I have saved this mail as 'test'. You could also
pipe it into uudeview ...

$ uudeview -i -t test
Loaded from test: 'test' (test): 0001.txt part 1   Text
Loaded from test: 'test' (test): 62125.gif part 1   Base64

Found '0001.txt' State 16 Text Parts OK
Found '62125.gif' State 16 Base64 Parts 1 OK

  -rw-r--r-- 0001.txt        is OK   [d] (?=help) d
    File successfully written to /var/home/kf6mli/mail/0001.txt
  -rw-r--r-- 62125.gif       is OK   [d] (?=help) d
    File successfully written to /var/home/kf6mli/mail/62125.gif


After that I have two files. '0001.txt' - the plain text
and '62125.gif' - the picture.

I think that's what your are looking for.
uudeview is under GPL so you can use this or parts from it.


Tom.