Re: Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote:
> I recently begun to receive messages with information like this:
>
> X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32)
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary="=====================_920025339==_"
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:35:39 +0100
> To: Conrado.Badenas@uv.es
> From: mom@home
> Subject: Your file
> X-Attachments: C:\eudora\Attach\File.doc;
>
> --=====================_920025339==_
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Dear Conrado:
> Here you have the file requested. I'm sorry but I wrote it with MSWord.
>
> Your mom
>
> --=====================_920025339==_
> Content-Type: application/msword; name="File.doc";
> x-mac-type="42494E41"; x-mac-creator="4D535744"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="File.doc"
>
> 0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAIgAAAAAAAAAA
> EAAAQQAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAACMAAAD/////////////////////////////////////////////
> ... (700 lines of letters and signs)
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////w==
> --=====================_920025339==_--
>
> How can I restore the file "File.doc" from the attachement made with
> Eudora?. I have tried with uudecode but it doesn't work (it seems it is
> not uuencoded).
>
> Is there a program to restore files from Eudora? Is it within any Debian
> package? I cannot tell the senders to use other mail programs or coding
> strategy.
The key part of the header is:
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Use the -m option of uudecode.
bob
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