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Article #439Re: Help - how can I decode embeded mulipart mimes in emails/newsgroups?
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Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 00:00
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David R Brooks <daveb@iinet.net.au> wrote: > 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. > > > -- Dave Brooks <http://www.iinet.net.au/~daveb> PGP public key via > <http://www.iinet.net.au/~daveb/crypto.html>, or servers MacZorro: Another possibility, depending on your application. Save the file, then drag and drop onto either YA Base 64 or Stuffit Expander and they will separate or join into something useable.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe136,27839bdd73f694e7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe136,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,27839bdd73f694e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public From: email@domain.com (Your Name) Subject: Re: Help - how can I decode embeded mulipart mimes in emails/newsgroups? Date: 1998/08/09 Message-ID: <19980809134811110983@mewiusr0-a06.midway.tds.net> X-Deja-AN: 379475186 References: <35cd137d.0@duster.adelaide.on.net> <35cd5bf5.1827437@news.m.iinet.net.au> Organization: TDSNET Internet Services(http://www.tds.net) Newsgroups: alt.sys.mac.newuser-help,aus.computers