[ILUG] `metamail' replacement(?) in Ubuntu 11.10(and later?)?

[Brian Foster]

 There used to be a nice, if rather old and showing
 its age (I remember using it on Sun workstations
 yonks ago) program called ‘metamail’.  Whilst full
 of slightly goofy options, its basic purpose,
 produce a human-readable version of an e-mail
 message, was quite useful (especially when it's
 in something awkward like “base64” encoding):

    metamail <MESSY-MESSAGE >DECODED-MESSAGE

 However, it does not seem to exit in Ubuntu 11.10,
 so does anyone know a replacement ?  (I know that
 by playing a few games with NMH I can achieve the
 same functionality, but am wondering if there is
 a simple replacement, preferably not tied to any
 particular MUA.)

cheers!
	-blf-

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