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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments |
| Date | 2020-03-26 10:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <zOxjd-71A-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:24:38AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >Opening pdfs in a reader is trivial with mutt. Just press 'v' and then
> >'Return' on the pdf attachment. It should be opened in your default pdf
> >viewer. This should work also for 'html' parts to be opened in your
> >default browser.
>
> I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as
> expected. What do I do with the following PDF:
>
> =?utf-8?B?QkhfODU0MDk2MjMwLnBkZg==?=
This is not a PDF (it would be a very short one, mind you :)
This is a string in MIME's "Encoded-Word" encoding [1], which is used
to wrap non-ASCII stuff in an MIME metadata (i.e. header) snippet.
Following the reference, that's what you can read off it:
=?utf-8 -- means that the actual content is an UTF-8 encoded string
?B -- means that what comes now is a base-64 encoding of the
above
After the next "?" comes the data:
QkhfODU0MDk2MjMwLnBkZg==
(the two trailing equals signs are padding, part of the base64 thingy;
the last ?= are MIME delimiters according to [1]).
Base-64 decoding it [2] yields:
BH_854096230.pdf
This looks like a file name to me. Note that, in hindsight, all this
encoding nonsense wouldn't have been necessary, because the original
above *is* already plain ASCII. This is a case of stupid software
obscuring things to make users even more stupid and dependent [3].
The PDF itself is somewhere else (perhaps in a MIME part somewhere
in that mail, perhaps sitting in some file system, whatever).
Cheers
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipurpose_Internet_Mail_Extensions#Encoded-Word
[2] In Emacs, just mark that string and M-x base64-decode-region.
Your editor sure has a way to do this, hasn't it?
[3] I don't think it's really intentional. It's an unfortunate and
contagious antipattern, a bit like prions transmit Creutzfeld-Jacob.
But nowadays I suspect that some actors help its expansion because
it helps their business interests. Or something.
-- tomás
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-03-26 06:00 +0100
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-03-26 07:40 +0100
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-26 06:10 +0100
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-26 09:30 +0100
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-03-26 10:20 +0100
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-03-26 10:50 +0100
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-03-26 18:50 +0100
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2020-03-26 12:50 +0100
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță) Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-03-28 10:40 +0100
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță) Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-03-28 14:10 +0100
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-28 09:40 +0100
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-03-30 13:30 +0200
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2020-03-27 13:30 +0100
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2020-03-27 13:30 +0100
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-04-13 20:50 +0200
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-14 09:00 +0200
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-04-14 09:30 +0200
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-14 10:20 +0200
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-14 22:30 +0200
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-23 03:20 +0200
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2020-03-26 12:50 +0100
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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-03-26 17:20 +0100
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-03-26 20:00 +0100
Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-03-27 04:30 +0100
[solved] Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-03-27 08:00 +0100
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