Subject: Re: forcing pine to display bad MIME?

From: "Robert de Bath" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 17:22:00 +0100 (BST)

Use the pipe command one the '|' key from the message or index screens,
pipe it through 'cat' and be sure to type control-W to pipe the whole
raw message through it.

If there are lines like below then you need a decoder to turn the base64
into plain text. The 'metamail' tools should work.

V2hhdCEgWW91IGFjdHVhbGx5IGJvdGhlcmVkIHRvIGRlY29kZSB0aGlzISBCb3kgYXJlIHlv
dSBzYWQhIDotKSAgICAgICAgICAgCg==

-- 
Rob.                           (Robert de Bath <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>)

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Alan Thew wrote:

> As postmaster and occasionally as a user, I receive mail where some of the
> headers are:
> 
> From: Mail Administrator <[email-masked]>
> Reply-To: Mail Administrator <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 01:50:38 -0700
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;          Boundary="===========================_
> _=
>               8967895(229)"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
> 
> 
> This looks totally illegal and pine does not display anything beyond this.
> However, there is a message here and it would be useful if I could force
> pine to read it. Any suggestions?
> 
> Attempts to use various pagers (and even /bin/cat) fail since pine appears
> to format the data rather then sending the raw information to the pager.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Alan Thew                                       [email-masked]
> Computing Services,University of Liverpool      Fax: +44 151 794-4442
> 
> 
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