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From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: mime mail, elm, pine, netscape
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:39:35 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
In-Reply-To: <199609031232.OAA10033@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 3, 96 02:32:24 pm
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> 
> 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?

There is a mpack/munpack util in the ports.  It does it fine.
(It can unpack mime and uuencode, too.)


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	Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>

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