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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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