#!/usr/bin/perl -w
######################################################################
+########
##    -*-perl-*-
##
## metamail - My slightly more secure metamail workalike.
##
## Courtesy of Gerard's Perl Page, 
##       http://www.geocities.com/gerardlanois/perl/
## REVISION HISTORY
##
##   version 1.0 2001/07/12 gerard@lanois.com - Initial release.
##   version 1.1 2002/01/31 gerard@lanois.com - parts_DFS instead of r
+ecursion
######################################################################
+########

use strict;
use MIME::Parser;
use File::Path;
use File::Copy;
use File::Basename;

sub yesno($) {
    my $question = shift;

    print $question, " (y/n) [n]: ";
    my $key = <STDIN>;
    print "\n";

    return $key =~ /^y/i;
}

my $tempdir = "metamail-tmp";
(-d $tempdir) or mkdir $tempdir,0755 or die "mkdir: $!";
(-w $tempdir) or die "can't write to directory";

my $parser = MIME::Parser->new;
$parser->output_dir($tempdir);
$parser->extract_uuencode(1);

defined $ARGV[0] or die "usage: metamail filename\n";

my $entity = $parser->parse_open($ARGV[0]) 
    or die "couldn't parse file ";

my $head = MIME::Head->from_file($ARGV[0]);
my @hdrs = qw( Subject Reply-to From );
foreach (@hdrs) {
    my $header = $head->get($_);
    if (defined $header) {
        chomp $header;
        print "    $_:", $header, "\n";
    }
}

$entity->dump_skeleton(\*STDOUT);

print "-"x40, "\n";

foreach my $part ($entity->parts_DFS) {

    # Process only those entities which have bodies.
    next if (!$part->bodyhandle);

    # If there are evil chars in the bodyhandle path, then MIME::Parse
+r
    # will choke and give a null file name, but the recommended
    # file name will always have the file name, evil characters
    # included.
    my $filename = $part->head->recommended_filename;
    if (!$filename) {
        $filename = $part->bodyhandle->path;
    }
    fileparse_set_fstype("MSWin32") if ($^O =~/MSWin32/);
    my ($file, $dir, $ext) = fileparse($filename, '\.[^.]*');
    if (yesno("\n\n".$file.$ext." - want it?")) {
        if ((!-f "./".$file.$ext) ||
            (-f "./".$file.$ext && (yesno("File exists, overwrite?")))
+) {
            move($part->bodyhandle->path, $file.$ext) ;
            print "Saved ", $file.$ext, "\n";
        }
    }
}

$parser->filer->purge;
rmtree $tempdir;
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