Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday 2008-10-01 at 00:14 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:


(I forgot to email this email)

> 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"

Yes, I know.


>         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!

There is uudedcode (package sharutils), but that will not help you because 
the above is not uuencoded. That's mime, I think, with "base64" enconding.

The problem is, I guess, that the email got broken in transit. What I do 
is to save(copy)  the email to a separate mbox folder with just that 
message, and edit it with an editor (joe or mcedit) till the mail program 
understands the email correctly. Usually it is a runtogether line.

I got one of those recently, but it was spam, so I didn't try to 
reconstruct.

[...]

I tried to find that email to test the procedure, but I couldn't find it 
and then I forgot to email this.

HTH.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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