How do I do a Base 64 decode?

Thanks,

Nik
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Nik Hole

> From: Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 11:00:42 +0100
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Blank e-mail - unreadable text
> 
> Nik Hole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Sometimes, when a certain company sends me e-mails, I get the company
>> disclaimer but cannot read the body text.  Is it possible that it is some
>> problem with being able to read their variant of HTML or something?  I
>> tried getting them to CC e-mails to my hotmail account.  One time, this
>> cured the problem if I read it from Hotmail rather than Entourage X.
>> 
>> When I look at the source code of the e-mail there is a section which
>> looks like ti may be meant to be the text:
>> 
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>> Content-Description: Internet HTML
>> PEhUTUw+DQo8SEVBRD4NCjxUSVRMRT5Qb3RlbnRpYWwgc2VwYXJhdGUgc291cmNlcyBvZiBtb
>> 2Jp
>> bGUgZGF0YTwvVElUTEU+DQo8L0hFQUQ+DQo8Qk9EWT4NCjxGT05UIEZBQ0U9IlZlcmRhbmEiP
>> kRl
>> YXIgWm9lLDxCUj4NCjxCUj4NCkkgd2FzIGFza2VkIHRvIGxpc3QgYWxsIHRoZSBwb3RlbnRpY
>> Wwg
>> ZGF0YSBzb3VyY2VzIGZvciBtb2JpbGUgZGF0YSAocmUgdGhlIE1vYmlsZSBsaXN0aW5ncyBzb
>> 2x1
>> 
>> 
>> ------=_NextPart_001_3FF2_01C1F190.829D0E00--
> 
> If you do a base64 decode of the above chunk of "gobbledegook" it looks
> like reasonablish (if non-HTML 4 compliant) HTML:
> 
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>Potential separate sources of mobile data</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <FONT FACE="Verdana">Dear Zoe,<BR>
> <BR>
> I was asked to list all the potential data sources for mobile data (re the
> Mobile listings solu
> 
> 
> But, whether Entourage is processing it as HTML depends on some of the MIME
> headers that you haven't included. The most important one is the
> "Content-Type", which should be something like text/html. Is there more
> base64 as well?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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