Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:14 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>        I have had a number of occasions where colleagues have bungled 
> attachments to
> e-mail where I receive the message body and attachment all run-together in the
> body of the message. Often times I need to be able to un-encode and save the
> encoded spreadsheet, word processing document or photo back to its .doc, .xls
> or .jpg native file format. The encodings appear similar to:

Just out of curiosity, what email client do you use? I use Evolution
with an Exchange server and everything works great, attachments are
decoded always without a problem. Also I use Kmail (with a POP3) for
another account and it never does that, FWIW.


> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> <snip>

>        Years ago, there was an old uuencode/uudecode script that I recall 
> using in
> DOS, but I don't have anything similar in my Linux tool box yet. I'm sure it 
> is
> there, I just don't know what it is called or what it looks like. If somebody
> could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. Thanks!

As you can see there the encoding is base64. The command is "base64
-d" to un-encode ([d]ecode). uudecode and uuencode are also there. I'm
not sure what package provides them but im pretty sure its part of
enhanced basesystem.
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