Subject: Re: Utility to read MIME-encoded message?

From: "J. Kelly Cunningham" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 13:27:53 -0600

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On 5 Apr 1995, David James Makil wrote:

=> 
=> HI,
=> 
=>    Would anyone be so kind as to point me in a direction where i may 
=> find a tool, allowing me to decode a simple MIME-encoded message that i 
=> received via the Pine mailer? Someone mentioned a site to me but 
=> unfortunately after getting the *.tar file, I learned that installation of 
=> the program required the use of various shell scripts and binaries. Is there 
=> any other program out there that decodes mime messages? Perhaps on the DOS 
=> platform? Or is installing the scripts, etc necessary for this task?
=> 
=> 				Thanks, David
=> 

You may want mpack and munpack.

                unix1.andrew.cmu.edu:/pub/mpack/README.ftp

Mpack and munpack are utilities for encoding and decoding
(respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) format mail messages.  For compabibility with older forms
of transferring binary files, the munpack program can also decode
messages in split-uuencoded format.  The mac port can also decode
messages in split-binhex format.

In short, mpack is the MIME equivalent of uudecode/binhex.

Versions are included for unix, pc, os2, mac, amiga, and archimedes
systems.

This MIME implementation is intended to be as simple and portable as
possible.  For a slightly more sophisticated MIME implementation, see
the program MetaMail, available via anonymous FTP to
thumper.bellcore.com, in directory pub/nsb

Files:

mpack-1.5-src.tar.Z             Source to all ports of version 1.5
mpack-1.5-src.tar.Z.asc         PGP signature for mpack-1.5-src.tar.Z

mpack15d.zip                    PC DOS binaries for version 1.5
mpack15d.asc                    PGP signature for mpack15d.zip

mpack15o.zip                    OS/2 binaries for version 1.5
mpack15o.asc                    PGP signature for mpack15o.zip

mpack-1.5-mac.hqx               Mac binary for version 1.5
mpack-1.5-mac.hqx.asc           PGP signature for mpack-1.5-mac.hqx

mpack-1.5-amiga.lha             Amiga binaries for version 1.5
mpack-1.5-amiga.lha.asc         PGP signature for mpack-1.5-amiga.lha

mpack-1.5-arc.arc               Archimedes binaries for version 1.5
mpack-1.5-arc.arc.asc           PGP signature for mpack-1.5-arc.arc

mpack-1.5-linux.tar.gz          Linux binaries for version 1.5
mpack-1.5-linux.tar.gz.asc      PGP signature for mpack-1.5-linux.tar.gz

mpack-1.5-netbsd.tgz            NetBSD binaries for version 1.5
mpack-1.5-netbsd.tgz.asc        PGP signature for mpack-1.5-netbsd.tgz

The Mac version of mpack does both packing and unpacking.  All other
distributions include both mpack and munpack.

Questions about files in this directory should be sent to
[email-masked]

-- kc          finger [email-masked] | pgp -fka 
"The  strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear
arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
                                                            -- Thomas Jefferson

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From: "J. Kelly Cunningham" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 11:44:17 -0600

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On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, J. Kelly Cunningham wrote:
 
=> On 5 Apr 1995, David James Makil wrote:
=> 
=> =>
=> => HI,
=> =>
=> =>    Would anyone be so kind as to point me in a direction where i may
=> => find a tool, allowing me to decode a simple MIME-encoded message that i
=> 
=> You may want mpack and munpack.
=> 
=>                 unix1.andrew.cmu.edu:/pub/mpack/README.ftp
=> 

I have been informed that I should be giving ftp.andrew.cmu.edu as the 
location of mpack, not unix1.andrew.cmu.edu.

-- kc    finger [email-masked] | pgp -fka 
"The  strongest reason for the people to retain  their
right  to  keep  and  bear  arms is, as a last resort,
to protect themselves against tyranny in  government."  --  Thomas Jefferson

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From: [email-masked] (Alan J Flavell)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 10:19:35 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (David James Makil) writes:
 
>   Would anyone be so kind as to point me in a direction where i may
>find a tool, allowing me to decode a simple MIME-encoded message that i
>received via the Pine mailer?
 
I found a simple filter written in C, called "encdec".  I think I
used archie (or possibly Lycos search) to find it.  It doesn't need
any other binaries or scripts.
 
If you don't manage to find it, email me and I'll look for you.

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From: Guozhong Zhou <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 17:08:40 +0000 (GMT)

I am also interested in how to read MIME-encoded message using 
pine.

Guozhong Zhou
[email-masked]

On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Allen Roberts wrote:

> On 6 Apr 1995, Rahul Dhesi wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Pine itself will let you extract base64-encoded files.  But if for some
> > reason you don't have pine available at this time, the program
> > 'metamail' will let you decode most MIME formats.  Browse through
> > ftp://thumper.bellcore.com:/pub/nsb/ or just download:
> > 
> >    ftp://thumper.bellcore.com:/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z
> > 
> 
> 	Ok if pine does this, then the next question would be 
> how?? WHat command??  I am very new to pine.  In fact I just got it
> yesterday just so that I could read a MIME encoded letter I recieved.
> Problem is....I still don't know how to use pine to read the "MIME" 
> letter.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!!  THanks in advance.
> 
> Allen
> 
> [email-masked]
> 
> 
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