mime email

[Welshjim]

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

[MafiaZ]

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

AIM : ANIL Tewari
Y! : tcp_ip_protocols
ICQ :125321653

[pennydog]

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.

[pennydog]

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.

[pennydog]

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.

[pennydog]

Sorry, I did not mean for that to get posted more than once. Not sure what is up with that.

[Daizy]

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.

[Alwill]

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;

Quote

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

Unquote

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).]

[pennydog]

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.

[Daizy]

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.

[Brily]

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

[thisolgranny1]

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

[pennydog]

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.