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RE: Viewing encoded attachments



> On 2003-10-27, David Fishburn <fishburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Mutt 1.4.1i on Linux RH9    
> > 
> > When I am reading a message with an attachment, I have to do the
> > following:
> > 
> > Hit |
> > Pipe to command: uudecode -o - | less
> > 
> > I had assumed setting:
> > :set pipe_decode=yes
> > 
> > Would allow me to run:
> > Pipe to command: less
> > 
> > But it doesn't.
> 
> If the uuencoded portion is really an attachment, setting 
> pipe_decode should work fine.  Sometimes, however, a 
> uuencoded file is simply included in the message body, not as 
> a MIME attachment, and in that case you will have to 
> explicitly pipe the body through uudecode.  Mutt trusts the 
> MIME headers and doesn't go looking inside the message parts 
> for uudecoded blocks.

Yes, you were right, it was part of the message instead of an
attachment.

Thanks for the response.

Dave