Subject: MIME decoding

From: Paul Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 16:47:51 -0400 (EDT)

We live in a diverse world in which not all mailers do MIME 
decoding/encoding--yet. This means that folks without Pine or Metamail or 
the like (say folks running DaVinci for example) are sometimes stuck in 
the following situation:
Someone using pine sends them mail with a MIME attachment.
They receive the message and are able to save the file.
BUT the file is now in MIME (base 64) encoding and can't be cracked.
Is there a MIME/deMIME program for PCs and/or Macs?
If the file were to be transfered to a host with Pine, could Pine be used 
to decode it (I think not easily)?
I can't believe that we're the only ones who have had this problem. What 
have others done?
Thanks for your help,
Paul

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       Paul Jones
       Office FOR Information Technology
       University of North Carolina
       Chapel Hill, NC
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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 00:12:00 +0200 (EET)

> Is there a MIME/deMIME program for PCs and/or Macs?

There's mpack/munpack.  Here's the text it inserts before the first
bodypart:

This is a MIME encoded message.  Decode it with "munpack"
or any other MIME reading software.  Mpack/munpack is available
in Volume 3 of comp.sources.reviewed or via anonymous FTP in
export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/

Version 1.3 was released just a few days ago, I saw an announcement on
comp.mail.mime.

--Arnt