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Re: Help - how can I decode embeded mulipart mimes in emails/newsgroups?

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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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Subject: Re: Help - how can I decode embeded mulipart mimes in emails/newsgroups?
Date: 1998/08/09
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