recoll and mime-text

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting davidschaak1 at mobilicity.blackberry.com:

> Sorry for top posting. Bbm does not allow bottom posting.
>
> Ifirc its uudecode. It has been 14 years since I used it.
>
> Hth

yes, that's it, in sharutils, too.

Thanks!

Dave

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> Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com>
> Sender: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:56:31
> To: Community support for Fedora users<users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: recoll and mime-text
>
> I've taken the suggestion of poma from earlier to try recoll as a
> desktop search engine. It indexed everything nicely and is very quick.
> I can't seem to get attachments out of my retrieved emails.
>
> So the one I'm looking for right now has an attached .pdf, but the
> whole mail, headers and mime text and all, displays as ascii text.
>
> I can use recoll's 'open' command, which fires up thunderbird and
> shows the attachment with an automatically generated name (gibberish,
> more or less) but when I try to save then view the attachment gedit is
> showing me the ascii. I vaguely recall years ago having to manually
> detach mime-encoded text but don't remember details.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Dave
>
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-- anon. philosopher