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davel
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response 125 of 130:
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Mar 23 13:46 UTC 1996 |
I know elm uses metamail to read mime-encoded stuff, & I think it's working.
If you don't have mail headers specifying the content type, I think
you can use metamail -bc ... but note I've never actually tried
to do this myself.
If it really is uuencoded, it sounds as though maybe you could just add
the begin & end lines? If that's all it's missing?
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srw
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response 126 of 130:
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Mar 23 22:05 UTC 1996 |
Mime does not use uuencoding. Typically it is base-64 encoded.
In #122, at the end of the second line, STeve, you meant "mail" not "news",
right?
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steve
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response 127 of 130:
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Mar 24 03:30 UTC 1996 |
Heh. Thanks for talking more time to understand what I said Steve,
than the time I took to compose that.
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tsty
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response 128 of 130:
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Mar 27 08:06 UTC 1996 |
well, tha expains why the uuen/decode stuff didn't work. And there
was a line about base64 Content ???? Enclosure, but PINE still failed
to un-MIME the stuff.
Is elm the ONLY emailer taht will work on this stuff? It's a pain to
ahve to bang back and forth between three emailers just to read mail.
Is there another method? I relaly like just plain mail ... and I can
doa l the editing necesary to clip out the file. What (or where can I
find) magic incantations to manually extract the gunk?
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davel
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response 129 of 130:
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Mar 27 11:23 UTC 1996 |
TS, I don't use pine, but I thought it had mime support of its own built in.
If so, however, it may use it for *reading*, not for *saving*. I know that
if elm recognizes something as mime-encoded it calls metamail to read it but
if I save the message to a folder it's not unencoded.
Meanwhile, I'd suggest doing "man metamail". metamail happens to be what elm
is set up to use, but it's not *part* of elm, but a separate, mostly-freeware
mime implementation. It's intended to be called by mail programs, but you
should be able to call it directly &, when you get it doing what you want,
redirect output to a file. (If the encoded data is binary, I'd suggest doing
your testing with output piped into "cat -vt".)
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tsty
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response 130 of 130:
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Mar 31 07:45 UTC 1996 |
I don't use PINE either ... except for its (supposed) MIME-aware tools.
The primary option with the MIME stuff in PINE is to S)ave the file, which
has worked in the past, but not now (recently). Perhaps there is a
newer vrsion of PINE floating around. I really can see staff blanche
at the prospect of yet *another* program to find and compile almost
immediately after their heroic efforts to get the Sun 4 on line. So I'm
not asking for a LRP to find/build a new PINE. I'll try our version of
elm and see what happens.
I will also check out the man metamail stuff. Btw, the enclosed file(s)
*appear* to be extremely similar in construction to a uuencoded file.
thankxx.
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