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Re: Hebrew Under gbiff




Well, now that this thread had died out ...

First of all, thank to everyone who contributed - I learned a few
things.

Second, does anyone have a solution to my overall problem - I have a
POP account (on an Exchange server) which receives messages with
Quoted-Printable encoded headers (Did I get that right ?). I would
like to monitor the mailbox over there (biff), and have the (new)
headers displayed in an X window on my Linux box. Obviously, gbiff
doesn't unencode the headers, so I get gibberish. Is there any
(simple) way to achieve what I want ?

TIA.




>>>>> "Tzafrir" == Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il> writes:

    Tzafrir> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Herouth Maoz wrote:
    >> On 2001 December? 12 ,Wednesday 12:18, Eli Marmor wrote:
    >> > Aharon Schkolnik wrote:
    >> ..  > > =?WINDOWS-1255?Q?=E0=E4=F8
    >> > >
    >> > > Does anyone know why this is, and if there is anything I
    >> can do > > about it ?  ..  > The header you quoted, is encoded
    >> in a BASE64 MIME format.  > If it is not decoded, it means that
    >> the application you use (gbiff > in this specific case) doesn't
    >> know how to decode BASE64. Or that > it is not configured to do
    >> it.
    >> 
    >> Actually, that header is encoded in Quoted-Printable. The
    >> format is charset followed by encoding method, where Q is
    >> Quoted-Printable and B is Base 64.
    >> 
    >> Usually, converters look for the body of the message, and if
    >> one of the headers says that it is decoded (either as
    >> Quoted-Printable or Base64), they decode it. There are some
    >> mail converters who fail to convert the headers. For example, I
    >> run an old version of Eudora on my Mac, and it decodes those
    >> headers well if the charset is familiar to them, and leave it
    >> as is if the charset is unfamiliar.

    Tzafrir> Where can I find such convertor already written?

    Tzafrir> I have a small script that I run from .procmailrc on one
    Tzafrir> computer to announce me of coming messages to that
    Tzafrir> computer:

    Tzafrir> formail -X From: -X Subject: | mail -s "Mail From <host>"
    Tzafrir> my@email.address

    Tzafrir> It sends the subject and sender of the original message
    Tzafrir> in a seperate message. But obviously gives some gibrish
    Tzafrir> in case of a subject/sender encoded as in the quoted
    Tzafrir> message.

    Tzafrir> -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
    Tzafrir> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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