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Anyone recognise this format?

#5773
From: David K McWilliams
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00
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A freind of mine recently received the following as an e-mail. He didn't
know what to make of it so he decided to pass it onto to me (me
foolishly thinks that I know a lot about this stuff). Could someone give
me some advice on what this is and how it should be decoded, its' not
uuencoded - which is what I thought it may be. 

It starts........
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Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Carvel.let"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Carvel.let"

/1dQQ3AEAAABCgIBAAAAAgUAAACdDAAAAAIAABOQD+io6vhbC6RtRtt7Dwmbt0ZwnnuKZMwl
2G4wFET7WbXvCAxbb/6j5CjN5/9Ml1RjpUQWxP5ZZx6vHcjOSiMiUU8vYKOOCTAPDYHpP2gg
66y3a1mR2VHoFTHK1KGulMx047w2sE+rifRgiiCo51t1GtIgy6rg129f27dVzqOxPhZ71WGj
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aXJtYW6AYW5kgEZvdW5kZXLMzGNjOuARDAAAAAAIBwwA4EtldmlugENvbGXQBBUAAAsACQAB
8B5AGhwAASAVANDgEQwAAAAACAcMAOBIQULM4BEMAAAAAAgHDADgSmltbXmAS2luZ8zgEQwA
AAAACAcMAOBCb2KAQ3VzaG1hbszgEQwAAAAACAcMAOBFcm5zdIBIYWdlcg==
--------------5A7E536668DB--

The header also conatins stuff like this at the top;
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------5A7E536668DB"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--------------5A7E536668DB
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Thanks in advance,

david
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David K McWilliams                            davidmcw@albion-auto.co.uk
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From: David K McWilliams <davidmcw@albion-auto.co.uk>
Subject: Anyone recognise this format?
Date: 1997/05/07
Message-ID: <NpI3THAEoDczEAXk@albion-auto.co.uk>
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Organization: Albion Automotive Ltd.
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