reading multipart mime emails
 

Hello all

I occasionally get sent multipart mime email attachements from Outlook express - I'm sure they could alter something at their end, but is there a way of reading/decoding these in Linux. All I get is something like the following.


etc spread over 2 emails.
I can't read this in Yahoo webmail either

Any info about what this actually is would be greatfully appreciated?
Thanks for your help

Alan

multipart/mime is a method of attaching external documents to e-mail... notice the attachment jan.courses.doc

-- you need somthing that can read MS doc files to get that open... usually you can save attachments to disk, then open with whatever can handle the file type.

Thanks for your reply

The thing is there is no attachment which I can save. It's pasted into the bodies of the 2 emails starting

Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="jan.courses.doc"

0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAALwAAAAAAAAAA
EAAAMQAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAAC4AAAD/////////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Do you think I could copy and paste all the "code" into a text file and change the name to "jan.courses.doc" it would work (I'm surprised it works on the senders windows machine as it has 2 "."s in the name!)?

Thanks again

Alan

it looks like the sender has told outlook/OE to split e-mails larger than xKb. I'm not sure how to rejoin them (when not using outlook/OE on the receiving end)... if nobody else jumps on this, i'll look it up later...