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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.


--  Dave Brooks    <http://www.iinet.net.au/~daveb>
PGP public key via <http://www.iinet.net.au/~daveb/crypto.html>, or servers

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.