Email Attachment

[jimmy.]

I recieved an email attachment from a professor from my school who uses an Apple computer. I use a Windows computer, so I can't read it. It had no file extension, so I tried opening it with notepad, but, the only readable text is:

 

--Apple-Mail-5--1063433202

Content-Type: application/msword;

name="computer-rec aug 05.doc"

Content-Disposition: attachment;

filename="computer-rec aug 05.doc"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

 

 

I think that the format is appledouble, if that means anything. Is there any way to read this file on a Windows computer?

[segosa]

Hmm. Well, it seems his e-mail client f*cked up the sending of the attachment. I don't think it's anything to do with you being on a PC and him on a Mac.

 

Is it something personal/private? Because if it's not and you upload & link us to that attachment with no file extension I can retreive the original Word document ("computer-rec aug 05.doc") from it..

 

Otherwise, you're screwed because I don't think you'll know how to do it yourself... (and explaining it is kinda arkward)

 

Canoxa: That's not the problem. The contents of that attachment should have been sent inline with the e-mail message, not as an attachment. But because it's not, the only way to retrieve it back is to manually do what your e-mail client would automate.

Edited August 30, 2005 by segosa

[Canoxa]

To save a document on an Apple properly, you have to put thefile extension with the name while saving. Are you sure your professor did that?

[jimmy.]

 

Hmm. Well, it seems his e-mail client f*cked up the sending of the attachment. I don't think it's anything to do with you being on a PC and him on a Mac.

 

Is it something personal/private? Because if it's not and you upload & link us to that attachment with no file extension I can retreive the original Word document ("computer-rec aug 05.doc") from it..

 

Otherwise, you're screwed because I don't think you'll know how to do it yourself... (and explaining it is kinda arkward)

 

Canoxa: That's not the problem. The contents of that attachment should have been sent inline with the e-mail message, not as an attachment. But because it's not, the only way to retrieve it back is to manually do what your e-mail client would automate.

Thanks, but I already read the attachment. I just forwarded it to someone using a Mac, who sent it back to me, so it can't be that the original sender f*cked it up. Since this problem will likely come up again in the future, can you try to explain the way to read this type of file? If I use an actual mail program (I was just reading my mail through the school website) such as Outlook, would that help? Or is there a program to download that will read it? Thanks for your help.

Edited August 30, 2005 by JIMMY12

[segosa]

 

Hmm. Well, it seems his e-mail client f*cked up the sending of the attachment. I don't think it's anything to do with you being on a PC and him on a Mac.

 

Is it something personal/private? Because if it's not and you upload & link us to that attachment with no file extension I can retreive the original Word document ("computer-rec aug 05.doc") from it..

 

Otherwise, you're screwed because I don't think you'll know how to do it yourself... (and explaining it is kinda arkward)

 

Canoxa: That's not the problem. The contents of that attachment should have been sent inline with the e-mail message, not as an attachment. But because it's not, the only way to retrieve it back is to manually do what your e-mail client would automate.

Thanks, but I already read the attachment. I just forwarded it to someone using a Mac, who sent it back to me, so it can't be that the original sender f*cked it up. Since this problem will likely come up again in the future, can you try to explain the way to read this type of file? If I use an actual mail program (I was just reading my mail through the school website) such as Outlook, would that help? Or is there a program to download that will read it? Thanks for your help.

Okay, then maybe your e-mail client f*cked it up. I don't know, but something went wrong.

 

Basically the "unreadable" stuff in that email attachment was the actual attachment he tried to send, base64 encoded. You've gotta base64 decode that and write it to a file. I don't know what tool you would use for that, but I would just write a php script to use base64_decode() on the input and write it to a file...

 

Edit:

 

segosa says:

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?act=ST&...=0#entry3148838

JK says:

it's probably there somewhere, but yes, apple mail is terrible for that

JK says:

there's options in Apple Mail that fix it, don't ask me what they are though

Edited August 30, 2005 by segosa

[Wolf68k]

The problem is that he used Apple's Mail email client, nothing wrong with that but for the fact that it encoded the file using Base64 which for some odd reason Windows' email clients can't decode.

You should be able find a program for Windows that can decode Base64 files.

Try this http://www.miken.com/uud/

 

[segosa]

 

The problem is that he used Apple's Mail email client, nothing wrong with that but for the fact that it encoded the file using Base64 which for some odd reason Windows' email clients can't decode.

You should be able find a program for Windows that can decode Base64 files.

Try this http://www.miken.com/uud/

It will... base64 is the standard way of encoding binary files so they're suitable for transmission in a plain-text document. To make sure I emailed myself an attachment..

 

 

--------------080405010502040301000403Content-Type: application/x-msdownload;name="download.exe"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64Content-Disposition: inline;filename="download.exe"TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA4AAAAA4fug4AtAnNIbgBTM0hVGhpcyBwcm9ncmFtIGNhbm5vdCBiZSBydW4gaW4gRE9TIG1vZGUuDQ0KJAAAAAAAAAC+S82s+iqj//oqo//6KqP/6SLK//sqo///Jvz/0iqj//8m<rest of base64 encoded file>

 

 

But yeah that program you linked to you should be good.