UUencoded attachments

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 12:16:51 GMT 2011


hmm got me wondering as to what would still be using uuencode for
attachments and not mime????
-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


On 18 March 2011 11:12, Alvaro Marin <alvaro at hostalia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> one of our customers is using a webmail (squirrelmail or horde) that can't
> show uuencoded files as attachments, so they are shown as text.
>
> MailScanner extract them correctly, and I think that could be a method to
> re-attach them in base64+MIME format.
>
> I see a commented function in Message.pm:
>
> ## Try to detect and dispatch embedded uuencode as a fake multipart
> message.
> ## Returns new entity or undef.
> ##
> #sub hunt_for_uuencode {
>
> that could help to convert those uuencoded files to base64+MIME mail.
> Any idea about how to use it?
>
> Thanks!
> Regards,
>
> --
> Alvaro Marín Illera
> Hostalia Internet
> www.hostalia.com
>
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