-----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