> maybe instead of bashing your head against the wall determining how to > open a proprietary format in a non-proprietary system, you can ask your > pal to re-send the content in a proper format, with a brief word about > the importance of using standard-compliant communications?
I believe .eml files are actually RFC2822 compliant email messages, and thus no lecture needed. Normally you wouldn't find yourself saving the message rather than the attachment, but if they forwarded the message it's commonplace for forwarded messages to be attached, and thus downloading the attachment might get you the email message rather than the attachment of the attachment. I can't think of a handy tool for automatically extracting all of the attachments, of attachments out of an email file, but there is a good chance that you can get it to load in a mail program. Email is ASCII text even the binary attachments are encoded in ASCII. So you should be able to open it in a text editor, and be able to seek down a ways, and see header information with filename, and mime type followed by a huge block of text that is probably in base64 encoding, it will say the encoding type in the header. If you make a copy of it to be safe, and then deleted the text before this header you can probably extract the file using a base64 utility. -- Take Notice (503) 409-1735 Tools for creating together http://solsticlipse.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
