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