From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 05:24:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA25434 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 05:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA25425 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 05:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA10464 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:19:54 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA10033 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:32:24 +0200 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:32:24 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199609031232.OAA10033@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: mime mail, elm, pine, netscape Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It happens moreoften now that people send mail with mime attachments (originating possible from netscape, M$ explorer) but 'conventional' unix mail readers like elm+mime, pine, mutt etc. cannot cope with these mails. Where exactly is written down how these mails have to look like? What is an easy methods to decode a Mime appendix at shell level once the mail was saved into a file? It happened to me that someone sent me a forwarded mail with a mime attachment and neither of the aforementioned readers could display/decode the attachment properly (didn't test M$ explorer). Only netscape was capable to show the attachment after I snipped the forward out of the mail. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de