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11 January 2008 - 9:08am
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I saw this tip on the NGWList from Bob Jonkman. In the past, when I have wanted to decode a Base64 encoded part of a Mime message I have used websites like OpinionatedGeek but I saw a tip from Bob that makes life much easier, and it's able to do a lot more than just decode the text portion of a Mime.  If you save out the Mime.822 with an extension of .b64 you can open it in Winzip to see the content.

So, for example, I had a mail in my mailbox that had a Base64 coded attachment - the attachment was actually a .png.  I saved the Mime and cut out everything from it except the Base64 encoded part, and the begin and end Mime boundaries.  I saved it as mime.b64 and opened it in WinZip - it displays the file in the WinZip interface and I can open it from there.  Pretty cool - I certainly used to have to decode base64 message parts quite often when I was in support.


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11 January 2008 - 9:08am
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Wish there was a WinZIP Cool

Submitted by Bob Jonkman (not verified) on 16 January 2008 - 12:00am.

Wish there was a WinZIP Cool Solutions site... Love those T-shirts!

--Bob.

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