On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 06:03:11PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > > I keep getting e-mail through Juno from my boyfriend who is on an aircraft > > carrier. The last time, I used uuencode. This time it says base64. Can > > you > > tell my why they are coming to me encoded. Also, is there an easy way for > > me > > to decode this message. The uuencode doesn't work. Maybe it is just me, I > > am not familiar with this stuff. > > He's mailing his messages using MIME - which is typically used for mailing > attachments. Some mailers (including Netscape 4) send out all their > mail in MIME encoded form (unless told not to). > > To decode the messages, the best bet is to use a mail program that > understands MIME. Failing that, you can use mimedecode (from the > mimedecode Debian package) to decode it.
munpack should do the trick. I used it earlier today to decode a file someone sent me as four message/partial parts (argh Microsoft mailer). "cat file1 file2 file3 file4 | munpack" worked nicely. The message contained some text and a file. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [***** ] 54% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
