On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mart) wrote: >I have a slightly annoying problem. I use Eudora 1.3.1 under sytem 7.1 >with great pleasure, but if somebody sends me a picture as attachment, >Eudora eats it and spits it out as below: > >--------------7372ECABF546797AEF2CFB90 >Content-Type: image/jpeg; x-mac-type="4A504547"; >x-mac-creator="4A565752"; > name="SomePicture.JPG" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >Content-Description: Document >Content-Disposition: inline; > filename="SomePicture.JPG" > >/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/2wBDAAgGBgcGBQgHBwcJCQgKDBQNDAsLDBkSEw8UHRo >fHh0aHBwgJC4nICIsIxwcKDcpLDAxNDQ0Hyc5PTgyPC4zNDL/2wB...
I believe that what you have there is not a JPEG file, it is a MIME/Base64 encoding of a JPEG file, just as it says in the header. It is _supposed_ to be text. You can not open it in a graphics program without decoding it first. To do this you take the entire text file, the whole e-mail if needed, and feed it to a decoding program like uucd by Laurent Hagimont (version 2.4.6 is what I use, it usually auto-detects where files begin and end, and handles multi-segment files - make sure you get a 68k or FAT version of the program) or, in case that fails, Base64 (full name: Yet Another Base64 Decoder). Should be easy enough to find on the web. There's also a program called MPack that I've never tried, but Hagimont recommends it as a complement to his own program. uucd also contains a short tutorial on the nature of text-encoded attachments. I guess that these things are becoming less well known nowadays, when most e-mail clients auto-decode pretty much everything, but this is the way things were done in the past. >I set the Eudora configuration to save attacments to a folder called >'inbox', but as you see, it never does. I can't explain that, but if you can manually save and decode the "garbage" text and get your file, then there isn't much of a problem, I think. And it is far more "vintage" that way. Good luck! /Mikael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
