What is a word (lexertest)

[Allyn Fratkin]

David Relson wrote:

> It's in my head that BASE64 is intricate and complicated.  Perhaps I'm
> thinking of messages about decoding it.  Perhaps I've got it confused
> with MIME encoding.  Whatever ...


yes, base64 is trivial (very similar to uuencode), it is the
mime encoding that is arbitrarily complex because it can be nested.
but i think that 99% of messages aren't really very complex
and could probably be decoded with a minimum of work.

i have a perl script i use as a pre-processor to bogofilter that unencodes
base64 and quoted-printable text attachments.
it isn't very smart but it does an adequate job for what it needs to do.

i'll post it later even though the code is embarassing.
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