[ale] Email, base-64 decoding

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 16:09:32 EDT 2009


If you run your mail through MailScanner, you can convert all incoming
email to plain text (and dump spammers crap, etc).

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Ken Cochran<kwc at theworld.com> wrote:
> Seems that nowadays I get more & more email that appears to be
> base-64 encoded.  Is there any way to decode these messages
> without resorting to web or a gui mail client?  "Berkeley"
> mail just gives me something that looks like it's uuencoded
> and mutt might decode it but if what's inside is html, that
> doesn't work either.  I need some kind of command-line tool
> a la munpack; ideas?  What typically generates email in this
> crazy coding scheme in the 1st place?
>
> I just sent Newegg a nastygram over this kind of email to the
> tune that I'll do no further business with them if they can't
> send me order-related email in a format I can read.
>
> FAQ / doc pointers welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -kc
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