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Re: Two simple recipes that don't work

2004-02-29 09:50:56
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Robert Krueger wrote:

RK>  Sorry to say, but I really don't have any experience with character
RK> encoding, so I don't know how to do that.  In Evolution, I selected
RK> "View Full Headers", selected "Select All" and simply did a cut and
RK> paste to my email to the group.  It cut and pasted the entire email at
RK> once, including the header. I saw no other options.  You'll have to tell
RK> me if there's another way I'm supposed to do this.
RK>


Have a look at a base64 encoded email in a text editor or viewer.  You
will then see why text regular expressions won't work.  And, no, don't
save the email to a file and look at that.  Your software will probably
try to be "helpful" and decode the email rather than simly saving it to
disk.

-- 
Alan


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