Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!usc!apple!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!izumi From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What to do when Next-Attachment header line is gone Message-ID: <1989Dec9.024426.7291@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 9 Dec 89 02:44:26 GMT References: <12054@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 In article <12054@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> lrr@Princeton.EDU (Lawrence R. Rogers) writes: >I have been in a situation where the Next-Attachment: header line has >been lost. One example is when the mail is distributed through a If the mail consists of just 1 mail entry ( as probably indicated by "1/1" on the line, you can first extract the main mail body. And [1] uudecode [2] uncompress ( or use zcat) by zcat file.Z >file.tar [3] un-tar by tar -xvf tarfile Then, you get bunch of files, one of which is an RTF file for text, and others for attachments. I don't know what other numbers on the line mean, but I don't think they are needed to unpack NeXTmails, unless (possibly) mail is divided into multiple parts. Izumi Ohzawa izumi@violet.berkeley.edu