On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Herouth Maoz wrote: > On 2001 December? 12 ,Wednesday 12:18, Eli Marmor wrote: > > Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > .. > > > =?WINDOWS-1255?Q?=E0=E4=F8 > > > > > > Does anyone know why this is, and if there is anything I can do > > > about it ? > .. > > The header you quoted, is encoded in a BASE64 MIME format. > > If it is not decoded, it means that the application you use (gbiff > > in this specific case) doesn't know how to decode BASE64. Or that > > it is not configured to do it. > > Actually, that header is encoded in Quoted-Printable. The format is > charset followed by encoding method, where Q is Quoted-Printable and > B is Base 64. > > Usually, converters look for the body of the message, and if one of > the headers says that it is decoded (either as Quoted-Printable or > Base64), they decode it. There are some mail converters who fail to > convert the headers. For example, I run an old version of Eudora on > my Mac, and it decodes those headers well if the charset is familiar > to them, and leave it as is if the charset is unfamiliar.
Where can I find such convertor already written? I have a small script that I run from .procmailrc on one computer to announce me of coming messages to that computer: formail -X From: -X Subject: | mail -s "Mail From <host>" [EMAIL PROTECTED] It sends the subject and sender of the original message in a seperate message. But obviously gives some gibrish in case of a subject/sender encoded as in the quoted message. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
