Mailing List Archive: Processing mails with base64 Subject lines and bodies so that they are saved as plain text

Hi Phil,

I've used the base64 en/decoder from John Walker a lot:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/

It's probably easy either to use it in a dot-qmail file or within the qmail-scanner (or the
qmail-scan script coming with spamcontrol or my s/qmail development).

IMHO it requires some logic to detect the base64 encoding and act respectively.

regards.
--eh.

On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:09:58 +1000, Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au> wrote :

> People,
>
> I have need to frequently use Recoll on my fairly large and old
> collection of emails in the Maildir tree - of course this is no use for
> searching for key strings in some of the emails when the Subject and /
> or bodies of those emails are encoded in base64. Having mails saved in
> this format in the Maildir tree is just a major PITA - is there some
> processing that can be integrated with Qmail to have these mails saved
> in plain text (Subject lines and bodies) when they first arrive into my
> server?
>
> qmail-scanner looks like it should work? but it seems like overkill?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
> --
> Philip Rhoades
>
> PO Box 896
> Cowra NSW 2794
> Australia
> E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au
>
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