[opensuse] howto un-encode files from email text encoding??
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! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjjJX0ACgkQasN0sSnLmgIBMgCgvbYHKiII0ePLkYpGklwoiwHV 8fgAn1q4bOHKr1E7mvXASCdpQDzXc/fd =x+zM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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:
David, all of those attachments are base64 encoded. You can use 'base64' to decode them - 'base64' is part of coreutils. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen wrote:
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:
David,
all of those attachments are base64 encoded. You can use 'base64' to decode them - 'base64' is part of coreutils.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Per, Andrew, Thanks, that's all I needed, off to man base64! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjwncwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XCSACgjM5BMpLqgRh1PlFdqr/iYpQH zp4AniJci8/sjhSQRAkH6/JSiM30Xx+v =aslr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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