MHA-DECODE(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

mha-decode — decode MIME messages. that's the whole job bestie, and she does it 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mha-decode [options] mailfolder ...

mha-decode [options] -single msg.822

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so mha-decode is a utility program that's part of the MHonArc software package, and what she does is provide basic MIME decoding for mail messages. lowkey iconic of her 🫶

If you hand her mail folders as input, then all messages within those mail folders get decoded. every single one. no cap.

All message parts get written to files, periodt. and here's the tea:

• If a filename is specified for a message part, that filename is what gets used when writing the part to a file. she respects the name you gave it 💖
• If no filename is specified in the message, a unique name gets used instead, based upon the content-type of the message part. she'll come up with something, don't worry 🧚

And if you just want one lil guy decoded? a single message can be decoded by using the -single option. one message, one main character moment. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

so mha-decode takes options available to mhonarc, but — and this is the important part — only those options that affect parsing of mail folders are applicable. the rest are just sitting there being decorative, bestie 😭

the applicable ones are:

• -conlen
• -mhpattern
• -msgsep
• -noconlen
• -outdir
• -perlinc
• -rcfile
• -single
• -umask

Also, mha-decode supports the following additional option:

• -dcd-digest — run in message digest mode. When this option is specified, any embedded message/rfc822 and message/news parts will be saved instead of recursively decoding any parts contained within. like, she's not gonna go digging, she's just gonna put it on the shelf and leave it there 🙈

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📝 NOTES 📝

ngl the documentation for MHonArc is distributed in HTML format. Due to its size and organization, it is not suited for manpage format — it's giving "too much for this container" 💀

So, consult your system administrator for where the documentation has been installed, or see AVAILABILITY for where you can access the documentation on the web. iykyk 🌐

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

<http://www.mhonarc.org/>

go go go 🦋

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Earl Hood, mhonarc@mhonarc.org

MHonArc comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and MHonArc may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the MHonArc distribution. read the license bestie, it's not a suggestion 💜

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and that's a wrap on the mha-decode page from the MHonArc v2.6 manual, dated 2003-07-19 🎀 mwah, go decode something pretty ✨