[olug] Re: How to MIME encode

[Brandon Lederer]

I recall a cpl of commands   mimeencode (maybe one e)  and mimedecode.....  I 
recall I had to install a mimetools package (Perl unrelated)


On Monday 27 October 2003 05:11 pm, Mat Caughron wrote:
> 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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