munpack

Extracting mime parts from oversize emails

Sometimes people have the strange idea to send files via email, despite it being a method of communication and not file transfer. Emails encounter a 34% overhead for the transfer of files! Compared to <1% for HTTP, FTP and SCP.

Install mpack to get the munpack utility.

The email can then be pilled/saved from the mail server into a text file that can be unpacked into the current directory:

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