[ale] MIME decoding question

[chrish at ifsintl.com (Christopher Hamilton)]

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>Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="marvshad.bmp";
> x-mac-type="424D5070"; x-mac-creator="4A565752"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="marvshad.bmp"
>
>
>I can't get 'pine' to recognize the encoding, nor to store a binary version
>of the item, much less view it.  How can I set up my mail reader to deal
>with encoded MIME attachments?  Earlier I had equally unsuccessful results
>with Netscape, which is why I installed 'pine'.  'View Attachment' brings
>a complaint from 'pine' that there is no attachment.
>
>Pointers Right to The Fine Manual are definintely appropriate here.
>

The uncoding type is base64.  I don't think I've ever seen one for Linux,
but I know that there are several for Windows.  You'll need to export the
message to a plain text file and run a base64 decoder over it.

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Christopher Hamilton       Internal System Administrator
chrish at ifsintl.com         IFS International, Inc.