[olug] Re: How to MIME encode

[Mat Caughron]

Hi perlfolks:

Any comments on the best way to mime decode?

I'd like to convert a bunch of mbox files to sql format and am looking
for a good way to do this.  It seems that all roads lead to gmime here.



Mat


On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 omaha.pm.knitter at recursor.net wrote:

> At 01:55 PM 10/27/2003 -0600, Jay Hannah  - jay at jays.net wrote:
> >Quoting Bob McCoy <bob at mccoy.net>:
> >> Does anyone know how to MIME encode a binary file for emailing?  In the
> >> past I've used uuencoding and that worked fine.  However, I'm now
> >> mailing this file to another service that only seems to understand MIME
> >> encoding.  Here is the original code snippet:
> >>
>
> How you do it depends on the platform you're on, and how they retrieve it
> depends on what they're on (I assume Windows on their side.) Elm handles
> mime encoding pretty well and I hear Pine does too.
>
> If the file's not too large, you could try just sending as plain ascii text
> with a .txt extension, and let them change the extension back to whatever
> after they've downloaded it.
>
> You might try q-print http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/qprint/  or m-pack
> if you're on a Mac.
>
> If it was me, I'd upload the file to a web page and send them the URL to
> download it.
>
> If all else fails, zip it.
>
> -Sidney
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