Subject: Mime decoder

From: Jason Cross <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 13:53:50 -0500 (EST)

Is there a mime decoder available for those users who receive
messages with mime attachments, yet do not have a mime mailer?

ciao,
Jason Cross <[email-masked]>
EDS      
Troy, Mi.

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From: Alan Barrett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 22:32:16 +0200 (SAST)

> messages with mime attachments, yet do not have a mime mailer?

Since breaking a MIME multipart message into its component parts is very
easy to do with a text editor (just look for the "--boundary" lines), I
suspect that you are really looking for a base64 decoder.  I have written
a perl package (available from ftp://ftp.ee.und.ac.za/pub/unix/base64.pl)
that includes functions for converting in all six possible directions
between base64, uuencode and pure binary formats;  using these functions,
a simple base64 decoder is a one-line perl program: 

   require 'base64.pl'; undef $/; $_ = <>; print &base64'b64decode($_);

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
RFC822: [email-masked]

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From: "John Ladwig" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 14:46:32 CST

>>>>> On Wed, 16 Feb 1994 13:53:50 -0500 (EST), Jason Cross <[email-masked]> said:

    Jason> Is there a mime decoder available for those users who receive
    Jason> messages with mime attachments, yet do not have a mime mailer?

Metamail for *NIX or DOS, current version 2.6 to my knowledge,
contains most all the program necessary to deal with MIME.  This does
not include graphic viewers and the like, but will create and chop up
all MIME messages.

Metamail is available at:

    ftp://thumper.bellcore.com//pub/nsb

-jml

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From: Eigil Krogh Sorensen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 03:11:28 PST

> Jason Cross <[email-masked]>

Yes there is. It's called metamail. Metamail is used by elm if it 
receives mails with MIME stuff (if you configured elm to support MIME of 
course. Metamail does not follow elm, so search for "metamail" not "elm".

Eigil Krogh Sorensen
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From: Kari Sutela <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 08:44:07 +0200

> messages with mime attachments, yet do not have a mime mailer?

Yep, there is something called metamail.

/KS

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From: Ying-Yuang Chen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 00:41:16 -0500 (EST)

How could I make pine and metamail work together ?

Ying-Yuang Chen
Computer Services, UNIX System Admin.
US Department of Commerce NOAA / AOML
4301 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33199

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 09:36:45 -0800 (PST)

The next version of Pine will incorporate much of metamail, though 
perhaps not all.  Specifically, the same mailcap database will be usable 
by pine and metamail.  There will also be a Pipe command that will allow 
calling metamail directly.

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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