Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[G T Smith <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>       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:
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0036_01C91E59.83DAB180
> Content-Type: application/msword;
>         name="PETITION - Original.doc"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
>         filename="PETITION - Original.doc"
>
> 0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAATwAAAAAAAAAA
> EAAAUQAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAAE4AAAD/////////////////////////////////////////////
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> <snip>
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>
> _OR_
>
> PHOTO;ENCODING=b;TYPE=image/jpeg:/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQIAAAAAAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEBAQ
>  EBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBA
>  QH/2wBDAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB
>
> _OR_
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0036_01C91E59.83DAB180
> Content-Type: application/pdf;
>         name="spider bite case.pdf"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
>         filename="spider bite case.pdf"
>
> JVBERi0xLjQNCiXi48/TDQo2NyAwIG9iag0KPDwNCi9MaW5lYXJpemVkIDENCi9MIDEyNzYzMCAg
> ICANCi9IIFsgNjkzIDgyOCAgICAgICAgICAgICAgXQ0KL08gNjkNCi9FIDU2OTk2ICAgICANCi9O
> <snip>
> aWxlcg0KPDwNCi9TaXplIDY3DQovSUQgWzwyOGJmNGU1ZTRlNzU4YTQxNjQwMDRlNTZmZmZhMDEw
> OD48MjhiZjRlNWU0ZTc1OGE0MTY0MDA0ZTU2ZmZmYTAxMDg+XQ0KPj4NCnN0YXJ0eHJlZg0KMTQ2
> DQolJUVPRg==
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0036_01C91E59.83DAB180--
>
>
>       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!


Umm... IIRC uunencode/uudecode had something to do with translating
binary to text between and stitching together of file transfers over
email before the days FTP became generally available on DOS and
bandwidth was a lot less than now. In the UK it was used to get material
from the Higher Education Software Archives (HENSA) up until the mid
1990s or so.

The above is something very different, it rather looks like mime
multi-part stuff and normally it is the responsibility of the mail
client to stitch the bits back together. So your are looking for a
different utility. What you need is something that can handle multi-part
mime.

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