Re: decoding

[Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca>]

On Fri May 9 2008 04:31:52 pm Frank McCormick wrote:
> Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded?
>
>
> here's the first few lines:
>
> --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q)
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> Content-language:
> Content-transfer-encoding: base64
>
> U29tZSBSZWFsbHkgR3JlYXQgTW9tZW50cyBvZiBSYWRpbyB0aGlzIHdlZWsuIFdlIGhlYXJkIGZ
>y
> b20gaW5zaWRlIEJ1cm1hIGEgUXVlYmVjZXIncyBmaXJzdCBoYW5kIGFjY291bnQuIFdlIGxhdWd
>o
> ZWQgb3ZlciB0aGUgVm9nZWwgZmFtaWx5J3Mgc3RpbGwgZHVyaW5nIFByb2hpYml0aW9uIGFuZCB
>3
>
>
>
> It ends with :
>
>
> --Boundary_(ID_Ta8U5Dd8tk/FeCjCVPGiyw)--
>
> --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q)--
>
>
> Base64 doesn't know what to do with this file.
>
> Help anyone?

I used to do this manually quite some time ago. IIRC I used mpack/munpack but 
I'm not certain of that now but you could try that and see.