Subject: Reading MIME emails

From: Steven Feinholz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 16:27:36 -0700 (PDT)

A coworker sent me an email which is in MIME
format. I have never worked with MIME formatting
before.

How do I view the data?
I believe it originally came from an MS Word
document.

I am running PIne 3.96 on SunOS 4.1.4.

Thanks.

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From: Timothy J Luoma <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 97 23:32:04 -0400

Author:        Steven Feinholz <[email-masked]>
	Original-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 16:27:36 -0700 (PDT)
	Message-ID:    <Pine.SUN.3.96.971007162628.17948L-100000@hostsw4>

> format. I have never worked with MIME formatting

It wouldn't happen to be application/ms-tnef would it?

If so, 30 in a week is a lot ;-)

If not, what type does it show up?

TjL

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From: Steven Feinholz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 22:49:37 -0700 (PDT)

It shows up as APPLICATION/octet-stream.

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:43:58 +0200 (MET DST)

> How do I view the data?

Unless you have a Word viewer installed on your Sun machine (I believe
that those only are available for W*ndows and M*cIntosh anyway), you'll
need to save the attachement to your home directory, transfer it to a
PC/Mac somewhere, and read it into Word there.

When viewing the message, press 'V', as in View, to get a list of the
attachements. The attachement should be labelled either
application/x-msword or application/octet-stream, or something similare.
Place the cursor over it, and press 'S', as in Save, to save it to your
home directory. Then transfer it to your PC/Mac with ftp or similar, and
load it in with Word.

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