Re: Reading .doc files emailed from MS Word

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Regarding how to extract mime data from an email where the
attachment structure has been lost,

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:47:44AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> This really has nothing to do with doc files or MS Word; you have a
> corrupted MIME message.  I help users with this occasionally when
> someone forwards a message using a non-MIME-aware mail program, thus
> destroying the structure of the message.  What you can do is save off
> all of the base64-encoded crap to a file, then run
> 
> mimencode -u garbage.file -o file.doc
> 
> You'll need to get the metamail package; Red Hat last shipped it as
> part of version 7.3.  It should still install on Shrike.

or try mewdecode, which is in RHL 9 as a part of package mew-common.


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