I received an email in the mime format. Is there anyway to convert this so I can read it? I have never gotten one like this. Thanks
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I received an email in the mime format. Is there anyway to convert this so I can read it? I have never gotten one like this. Thanks
Mime format is basically the world "standard" format. If I'm not mistaken, some ISP's like AOL have trouble reading some mime type emails..Ask the original sender to try sending again but in "plain text." (not html/rich text)
Thanks for your reply. I am not sure who the sender is, so I guess I will trash it. I am on earthlink at work and not sure what their server is. But thanks anyway.
pennydog--On the chance you have not yet deleted that email, have you tried to open in Internet Explorer? (You may have to save to a .txt file first.)
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Jim
The email came in at work and we use internet explorer. It is in the Mime format and rather long. We are not sure who it is from, but that is not uncommon at our office. I just thought there may be some way to convert it so we could read it. I still have the message in the inbox. Could we save it to a disc then open it in another program where we can read it? Thanks for your help.
pennydog--I think WinZip will open Mime messages. (Sorry about the suggestion of IE.)
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Jim
I downloaded a "decoding" program, but it requires me to save it as a .txt file and the email program will not allow me to save. Not sure what is up with that. I have sent it to the yahoo mail program and it will not allow me to save from that location either. I am at a lost as to how to read it. I have the winzip but not sure how to go about getting it to open with that program. Thanks for your help!
pennydog--I guess you know you have not told us which email program you use (though Mosaic1 seems to think you have Yahoo). Most email programs--certainly Outlook Express which ships as part of Internet Explorer--offer the opportunity to Save or Save As. Then you can choose several file formats in which to save at the bottom of the window that opens. But whether you save as .txt or .htm, have you tried putting the saved message into WinZip?
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Jim
I thought i had mentioned my mail program but I guess I did not, sorry. We use outlook at work and I tried to save as, but it will not give me anything to save, does not do anything when I click on save as. I forwarded to a Yahoo account thinking I could save it from there, but could not. I guess there is no hope on this particular email. I was curious as to what it contained since it was in Mime format. Thanks to everyone for the help. I will try it in the yahoo mail as suggested above. Again, Thanks!
So far nothing has worked to decode this maessage. But thanks anyway guys!
pennydog--Will your OE program allow you to File|Save As any emails? If the problem is general, you might want to reinstall OE.
P.S. Here is a real clunky way for saving an email message, but you should really not have to do this on an ongoing basis. Click somewhere in the message, click Control+A, click Control+C, open WordPad or NotePad and click Control+V. Now you have pasted the message into one of those word editors and should be able to save as .doc or .txt respectively.
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Jim
Thanks Jim, when I get to work tomorrow I will try that and see what happens with it. I am not sure if I have ever tried to save as an email. I will check that out also tomorrow. Thanks for your help and I will let you know what happens with it.
Ok, I just tried the ctl + A, Ctl + C etc thing and put it in word pad. It allowed me to save it and then I opened it with the zip file, still encrypted, only different types of symbols other than the original email. So any other suggestions? this is driving me nuts!
Ok, I just tried the ctl + A, Ctl + C etc thing and put it in word pad. It allowed me to save it and then I opened it with the zip file, still encrypted, only different types of symbols other than the original email. So any other suggestions? this is driving me nuts!
Just in case you haven't done so, virus scan it anyway, just in case.
pennydog--Do you use Winzip? If so, click on Help in the Winzip window, Contents, then type MIME in line 1 and click Display. You will be offered a whole bunch of ideas how to open MIME messages. I see one thing I missed is that apparently you must save the message with the UUE extension (.uue). Other Zip programs may have similar Help ideas.
And do check if your OE has general problems in Save As.
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Jim
Penny , Are you using Earthlink 5.05 mail client.? If YES, unfortunately it has many bugs. Better change to OE or other, it will NEVER give you trouble as ELN gives.
Some mailers, like pine and netscape, read these automatically. But if you have trouble, export the problem file to a text editor and strip off the email content right up to the obviously-encoded stuff. Three lines before the big block of junk will tell you what file has been included, eg "filename.pdf" or "filename.zip". Remove these lines too. Save as, say, mimefile.
Then, on one of the PCs, type
mmencode -u mimefile -o filename.pdf
or the appropriate extension. This produces the file needed
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Anil Tiwari
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Hey guys, nothing works, or I cannot get it to convert it to where I can read it anyway. I use Outlook Express for my email at work but have sent it to a yahoo account and still nothing. Our ISP is earthlink, but we get our mail thru OE. I will keep trying but this thing is starting to annoy me and making me more curious than ever, I guess simply cause I do not know what it is! Thanks for your help anyway.
Hey guys, nothing works, or I cannot get it to convert it to where I can read it anyway. I use Outlook Express for my email at work but have sent it to a yahoo account and still nothing. Our ISP is earthlink, but we get our mail thru OE. I will keep trying but this thing is starting to annoy me and making me more curious than ever, I guess simply cause I do not know what it is! Thanks for your help anyway.
Hey guys, nothing works, or I cannot get it to convert it to where I can read it anyway. I use Outlook Express for my email at work but have sent it to a yahoo account and still nothing. Our ISP is earthlink, but we get our mail thru OE. I did try to open with winzip and it was a different kind of code. I will keep trying but this thing is starting to annoy me and making me more curious than ever, I guess simply cause I do not know what it is! Thanks for your help anyway.
Sorry, I did not mean for that to get posted more than once. Not sure what is up with that.
Hi pennydog:
I've just been lurkin on your thread and wondering why you can't decode, so I did a search. See if this link helps at all? http://www.quarbon.com/viewletlibrar...nguage=English
How to Download and Decode a MIME Email Attachment in AOL.......maybe it will have something helpful?
Daizy
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Hope this helps.
I don't want to be alarmist but this is a paragraph from what Symantec has to say about the new Nimda virus which has just surfaced;
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When the worm arrives by email, the worm uses a MIME exploit allowing the virus to be executed just by reading or previewing the file. Information and a patch for this exploit can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...n/MS01-020.asp
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The rest of Symantec's coverage of the worm
is at
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/[email protected]
[This message has been edited by Alwill (edited 09-18-2001).]
You know a virus may explain why it will not decode. Also, I have emailed the sender 3 times and asked that they resend the mail in html and no response. So I guess now I need to check and see if I have a virus on my work computer? Also, Daizy I will check out that link just to get some info on decoding. I have never had anything bug me like this has. Maybe I will just delete it and forget about it. Must not be important if the sender will not resend. Thanks to everyone for their help on this frustrating task.
Hiya pennydog:
I didn't realize you didn't know the sender. My thought too then, would be to delete it, and most definitely do a virus scan. Post back and tell us how you make out.
Daizy
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Hope this helps.
If you haven't already done so make sure and get SP2 (service pack) for whichever IE version you are using.
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G,
Brily
Just an observation but if you are using Outlook Express at work, can you look at the Properties of the email and at least find out where it came from? An IP or something that would give you a general area to track it to? Like FILE, then PROPERTIES, and then DETAILS....and then possibly MESSAGE SOURCE?
Would that you give any indication where it comes from?
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thisolgranny1
I did not recognize the senders same, some sort of nickname like most of us have, but I did read the header info and know the name of the server it came from. I have sent an email of complaint to them regarding one of their subscribers, just in case it was a virus. I have deleted it, but I had already printed it before, so I would have the sender info handy. I feel if it were legit, they would have responded back to me by now. It just bugged me cause I could not decode it. I went in and installed some sort of patch yesterday from microsoft and going to the symantec website and see about any other scans or whatever I can do to protect my computer at work. Thanks for all the help on this project.Have another problem or two but will end this thread and start another one regarding those problems.