Russell,

Exactly what is corrupt with the MIME file?  I periodically receive e-mail with
incorrect MIME headers.  The text stuff is never a problem, but when the content
is some binary format, I have been able to recover it by doing the following:

1. Open the file in a text editor.
2. Delete all but the encoded binary portion, removing headers and footers.
3. Save the file.
4. Process the new file with your favorite MIME decoder.

I use FastCode on my Win95 PC, it's free and works pretty well.  I found it at
that in Walnut Creek's FTP archives at:

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/encode/fcode325.zip


If the actual encoded binary is corrupt, I think you might as well toss the
file.  You can try to decode it, but then you need to know something about what
the resulting binary should look like to fix the errors.

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell McMahon [mailto:apptech@clear.net.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 5:11 AM
To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: [OT]: Retrieving corrupt Mime files.


From time to time I receive files with mime content which has been corrupted
so that the file will not rebuild correctly.
Presumably this is a common enough problem.
I am using IE5.5 but the problem is receiving browser independent.

Inspection of the contents does not encourage me to take up the project of
understanding mime well enough to build a rebuilder.

Are there standard tools for rebuilding corrupt mime files?
A web search didn't turn up anything useful.



TIA

        Russell McMahon

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