UUDecoding on the FLy?

[Russ Allbery]

ozzy at pixelfodder com <ozzy at pixelfodder.com> writes:

> I looked the archives and haven't found anything on this. I've got a
> private newsfeed coming in that has multipart mime-encoded data which is
> the only thing i'm interested in, is there a way I can setup INN to
> automatically decode that data to the filesystem?

I'm afraid that INN doesn't have any built-in support for that, but you
may be able to do it as a feed.

> I was wondering if it's feasible to setup a script as a 'newsfeed' in
> the in the newsfeeds file, do you think this would keep me up to the
> minute on my feeds (ie, putting the data i need into a db as feeds come
> in)?

Yes, that should work.  There's a lot of documentation in the newsfeeds
man page about all the different feed types and how to pass in various
bits of information to programs.  I'd start by looking there, and then ask
more if you have additional questions.

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