Re: Decrypting Message Body

[Charles Cazabon <search-web-for-address@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Daily <jonfdaily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Depending on the source, some messages that I am receiving, seem to be
> coming in with the message content only encrypted.
[...]
> There is the possibility that I am way off, and something else is
> happening to the message altogether.  I have attached a very small
> snippet of an example of the message contents (the header is fine)
> just in case I am mis-identifying the issue.
> 
> RXhwbGFpbiB0byB0aG9zZSB0aGF0IGFyZW4ndCB0aGVyZS4gIERhaWx5IGlzIGEgc3Vw

That's not encryption; that's base64-encoded text.  It translates as ""Explain
to those that aren't there.  Daily is a sup"".

Look for a MIME tools package; there are commandline clients that can turn
that back to unencoded text, or you can write your own in your favourite
scripting language.

Charles
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