Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/11/2012 11:57 PM, g wrote: >On 01/10/2012 06:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I've not searched for any existing utility since I keep all of my emails >> on an imap server and text based searches from email clients work just >> fine as the un-encoding is done behind the scenes and I've never fo

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-11 Thread g
On 01/10/2012 01:13 PM, Tim wrote: <> > You could pipe your mail through a local mailserver, one that transcodes > on the way through. Various mail/list servers do that, and you can do > just the same thing, but picking the output encoding that you want used. -=- would you happen to know of a s

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-11 Thread g
On 01/10/2012 06:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/10/2012 02:07 PM, g wrote: >> so, consider this post as warning of future post. 8-D > > I'm pretty sure I know what you want > > You want a pre-processor to take incoming emails that are in encoded in > base64 and un-encode it before storage in

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-10 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 22:06 +, g wrote: > now that fedora project has started sending emails as; > > }} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > }} Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > is there a way to convert emails back to text so that local searching > of emails can be done? You co

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/10/2012 02:07 PM, g wrote: > so, consider this post as warning of future post. 8-D I'm pretty sure I know what you want You want a pre-processor to take incoming emails that are in encoded in base64 and un-encode it before storage in the mailbox. I don't know of any utility that curren

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-09 Thread g
On 01/10/2012 05:26 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/10/2012 12:54 PM, John Wendel wrote: <> >> "man base64" should get you going. It's a little easier than the perl >> stuff. -=- i had already checked 'man base64' and from what i read, it will not do what i would like. i am wanting a 'preprocesso

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/10/2012 12:54 PM, John Wendel wrote: > On 01/09/2012 03:14 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 01/10/2012 06:06 AM, g wrote: >>> greetings, >>> >>> now that fedora project has started sending emails as; >>> >>> }} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >>> }} Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >>>

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-09 Thread John Wendel
On 01/09/2012 03:14 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/10/2012 06:06 AM, g wrote: greetings, now that fedora project has started sending emails as; }} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" }} Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 is there a way to convert emails back to text so that local searching

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/10/2012 06:06 AM, g wrote: > greetings, > > now that fedora project has started sending emails as; > > }} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > }} Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > is there a way to convert emails back to text so that local searching of > emails can be done? > > sea

converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-09 Thread g
greetings, now that fedora project has started sending emails as; }} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" }} Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 is there a way to convert emails back to text so that local searching of emails can be done? searching on "Subject:" seldom provides a means to fin