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goble@kigateway.eastend.com.au (David. E. Goble) wrote:

:Hi All;
:
:I need to be able to decode multi and single emails and newsgroup
:postings that have mime coded parts inside the post.
:
:
:	for the pc    - Free Agent
:                                - Eudora
 I can't help with the Mac. But Eudora can accept "filters" (Eudora
Pro anyway, not sure about the freeware version). These enable you to
pass selected messages to a given program. Messages are text files,
beginning with a dummy line "From: ???@???". If you can't use filters,
just let your program read a Eudoram mailbox file, ie foo.mbx. This is
a sequence of messages, delimited as above. I think Agent uses a
similar format (it's a Unix standard).

 Within a message, look first for a "MIME-Version: 1.0" line (version
number might vary). This indicates there are MIME headers present. If
so, look for line like 
	boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BD45EF.BB7B8950"
 The quoted string is quite arbitrary, & is simply something that
doesn't appear anywhere in the message. Such a line now marks off the
various segments. (The line is absent if only 1 segment).
 There is a RFC which gives all the gory details, but I don't have it
to hand.


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