I did not write this and the author is no longer around. The program converts mail spools and is handy in migrating acquired users to our system. It works, but there has to be a better way to write this, especially when many acquisitions (companies) have 50000+ mail users. 
#!/bin/perl
$infile = "/tmp/mail.aliases";
$outfile = "/tmp/mail.new";
open ( INFILE, $infile ) || die "Can't open $infile: $!\n";
open ( OFILE, ">$outfile" ) || die "Can't open $outfile: $!\n";

while ( <INFILE> )
{
        s/]//;               # attribute 24 type string
    s/[[]//;
    s/IDENT://;
    s/<//;
    s/>...//;
    s/`...`//;
        print OFILE "$_";
        
} # end while ( <INFILE> )

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