extract all images from spam folder?

[Tom G. Christensen]

Chris Yuzik wrote:
> We have MailScanner set to quarantine all the spam messages, and in 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/<date>/spam there are all the messages 
> as one file for each.
> 
> What I would like to do is extract all of the attached images from all 
> the messages in the folder and have a look at them. Would also be useful 
> for testing fuzzyocr. Is there an easy way to accomplish this from the 
> shell?
>
# cd <spamfolder>
# for i in *; do uudeview -i -m +e .jpg.gif.png -p /tmp/spampics $i; done

The key is ofcourse uudeview that does uu/yenc/base64 decoding.

-tgc