On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:14 AM, David C. Rankin
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org