Re: decoding

[debian@videotron.ca]

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Mumia W.. wrote:
| On 05/09/2008 06:31 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
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|> Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded?
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|> here's the first few lines:
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|> - --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q)
|> Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
|> Content-language:
|> Content-transfer-encoding: base64
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U29tZSBSZWFsbHkgR3JlYXQgTW9tZW50cyBvZiBSYWRpbyB0aGlzIHdlZWsuIFdlIGhlYXJkIGZy

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b20gaW5zaWRlIEJ1cm1hIGEgUXVlYmVjZXIncyBmaXJzdCBoYW5kIGFjY291bnQuIFdlIGxhdWdo

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ZWQgb3ZlciB0aGUgVm9nZWwgZmFtaWx5J3Mgc3RpbGwgZHVyaW5nIFByb2hpYml0aW9uIGFuZCB3

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|> It ends with :
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|> - --Boundary_(ID_Ta8U5Dd8tk/FeCjCVPGiyw)--
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| Huh?
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| That's not the right boundary. Below is the right boundary.
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|> - --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q)--
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|> Base64 doesn't know what to do with this file.
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| Of course not. Base64 expects each message part to have a beginning and
| an end, and message parts cannot (AFAIK) be interleaved.
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|> Help anyone?
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| I suspect that whatever software created the message is broken. Delete
| the spurious message boundary line and decode using munpack or another
| Base64 decoder. Since that is a private message to you, I won't ask you
| to send it to me, but I am curious...
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~  I'll try it when i get a chance.. but as I told Ron Johnson when I
exported it from Sylpheed and imported it into Thunderbird it all became
clear! I have no idea what went on. But I''ll try your method.

Frank

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