Forwarded emails are unfortunately sometimes transmitted by Outlook as .eml file

Question

Forwarded emails are unfortunately sometimes transmitted by Outlook as .eml files, which are unusable for normal users. In particular, extracting attachments from .eml files is a challenge.

What software can extract all attachments contained in a .eml file?

Requirements:

Free
Open source
Runs on Linux
Output a file per attachment, with the intended name.
No need to compile (binaries available, or script)
Reasonably fast to install, I would rather avoid having to set up a particular email client program just to process this .eml file.

Explanation / Answer

Unpack messages in MIME or split-uuencode format.
Munpack are utilities for encoding and decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages.

To Install:

sudo apt-get install mpack

To extract the eml contents

munpack 1.eml

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