Re: MIME problem

[lvirden@cas.org]

According to Brian Hammack <brian.hammack@rook.wa.com>:
: Soenke spewed forth:
:
: SC(| Strangely enough, no. mpack and munpack remain unported. However,
:    | there are several base-64 shell decoders available already, and at
:    | least one desktop one in the works.
:
:Mushy, beta-tester for the desktop one (BSC-It 2.1 alpha 2 as of today),
:here... Yeah, there is work on a Base64 decoder, and things are quite
:promising.  There had been problems with decoding some due to the fact
:that there is no *real* standard to MIME headers, so for instance I
There _is_ a standard.  However, perhaps what you mean is 'not every
software package adheres to the MIME standards'.  Read the FAQs for
comp.mail.mime for pointers to the official standards regarding MIME
headers, MIME encoding formats, etc.

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