[ale] MIME decoding question

[Dan Newcombe]

Yeah...mpack and more importantly munpack work great.
The best thing about munpack is if you have a bunch of encoded files
(base64 or uu) you can just through wildcard filenames at it and it works.

But back to the original post.  Pine works great on autodecoding
attachments (well, not 100 auto ... you have to tell it to extract the
attachment), but it sounds to me like the mail you got did not have the
headers encoded correctly, and that is why you could see all the text
junk, as Pine normally tries to hide that.  Either that or a bum mail.
I got an attachment this morning listed as a .wav which was actaully 3
lines of text due to the person that sent it messing up.

	-Dan

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Randy Dunlap wrote:

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> Text item: 
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> If you can believe the file names 8;), there is a linux MIME pack &
> unpack utility available at ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/ .
> I use the DOS version and it works well.
> 
> ~Randy
> (On the net, I speak only for myself.)
> 
> 
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> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: Re: [ale] MIME decoding question
> Author:  ale-owner at cc.gatech.edu at SMTPGATE
> Date:    7/30/97 10:11 AM
> 
> 
> >[headers, lead text ..]
> >--=====================_870211319==_
> >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="marvshad.bmp";
> > x-mac-type="424D5070"; x-mac-creator="4A565752"
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="marvshad.bmp"
> >
> >
> >I can't get 'pine' to recognize the encoding, nor to store a binary version
> >of the item, much less view it.  How can I set up my mail reader to deal
> >with encoded MIME attachments?  Earlier I had equally unsuccessful results
> >with Netscape, which is why I installed 'pine'.  'View Attachment' brings
> >a complaint from 'pine' that there is no attachment.
> >
> >Pointers Right to The Fine Manual are definintely appropriate here.
> >
> 
> The uncoding type is base64.  I don't think I've ever seen one for Linux,
> but I know that there are several for Windows.  You'll need to export the
> message to a plain text file and run a base64 decoder over it.
> 
> ...
> 
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> 
> Christopher Hamilton       Internal System Administrator
> chrish at ifsintl.com         IFS International, Inc.
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Dan Newcombe                                      newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu
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