On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: > I recently begun to receive messages with information like this: > > X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="=====================_920025339==_" > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:35:39 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Your file > X-Attachments: C:\eudora\Attach\File.doc; > > --=====================_920025339==_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear Conrado: > Here you have the file requested. I'm sorry but I wrote it with MSWord. > > Your mom > > --=====================_920025339==_ > Content-Type: application/msword; name="File.doc"; > x-mac-type="42494E41"; x-mac-creator="4D535744" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="File.doc" > > 0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAIgAAAAAAAAAA > EAAAQQAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAACMAAAD///////////////////////////////////////////// > ... (700 lines of letters and signs) > /////////////////////////////////////////////////w== > --=====================_920025339==_-- > > How can I restore the file "File.doc" from the attachement made with > Eudora?. I have tried with uudecode but it doesn't work (it seems it is > not uuencoded). > > Is there a program to restore files from Eudora? Is it within any Debian > package? I cannot tell the senders to use other mail programs or coding > strategy.
The key part of the header is: > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Use the -m option of uudecode. bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen