[SLUG] mutt displaying base64 encoded emails

[Benno]

Hi all,

Recently I seem to be receiving a lot of email that is otherwise
plain text, but ends up being base-64 encoded. Unfortunately mutt
display this without decoding which is a real PITA.

Looking at the headers of these emails, it doesn't actually seem to
bother telling the client that they went and base64 encoded it, and
instead advertise text/plain, utf8. I thought it had to somehow
specify the encoding. Anyhow, has anyone else run in to this, and does
any one know how to get mutt to play nicely?

Cheers,

Benno
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Re: [SLUG] mutt displaying base64 encoded emails

[John Clarke]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:07:21 +1000, Benno wrote:

 does any one know how to get mutt to play nicely?

mutt *is* playing nicely; it's the sender's MUA that isn't.  What
I do is edit the content-type in mutt -- 'v' to view the message 
structure, move to the attachment, 'control-e' to edit the
content-type.


Cheers,

John
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