Before the development of the MIME standard a common way to include
attachments within an email message was to transform 8bit data format
into a 7bit US-ASCII text format using the uuencode command.
To decode the attachment you need to use the uudecode
command. This command can be applied to the whole mail message and it
will find the relevant sections and extract the encoded attachments
into the files they specify. One way to effect this is to save the
mail message to a file (say message.uu), then do:
Warning: You may want to do this in a temporary directory to deal with
the potential of uuencode overwritting pre-existing
files.
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