I got this email from a friend of mine. It was a picture of me and some
friends of mine. The problem is that she didn't send the picture as an
attachment like I asked, she just sent the picure as the email. I tried to
use pine, bueit would not show me the picture. I tried forwarding it to
another email, but that didnt work either. Does anyone knkow of a way that
I can view this picture. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

8 responses total.

I save such in-ttachments to a file in my directory, edit out the
extraneous stuff, download, and open in a suitable decoding operations.
Works 5 times out of 10.

What Rane said, for the most part.  Save to a file.  Look at contents of
file for what kind of encoding is used.  If it's uuencoded, you probably
can uudecode it without editing out the other stuff.  If it's base64, you'll
probably need to (or I have needed to).

Sometimes running metamail on the file will be sufficient, too.

Im sorry, what exactly do you mean by "suitable decoding operations"?

Re #3: what davel said. For example, I have a general application,
MacLinkPlus (I'm a Mac user), which has decoders for MIME, BinHex and
uuencode. I also have separate decoders for CompactPro, Stuffit, UUTool
and Zipit, some of which are free (or maybe shareware) utilities.

For MS-Win, WinZIP will decode a bunch of formats.

theres nothing showing what type of encoding the picture has. Are you
referring to the header information? And I dont know if its important or not,
but when i downloaded the file to my home directory, it was significantly
smaller than the file in my pine directory. I didnt see anything else to
"edit" out either (again, unless you're referring to the header files). Thanks
for all of the replies.

Still usin' macs, rcurl?

Yes - on a G4 now.

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