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mimedecode 1.9-4
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 * This program performs the decoding of transfer encoded text type
 * mime messages. The message in its entirety is read from stdin.
 * The decoded message is written to stdout; hence, this program
 * behaves as a filter which may be placed wherever convenient.
 * I particular like it in front of my slocal command in my .forward
 * file.
 *
 * It is assumed that the message has reached its point of final
 * delivery and at that point 8-bit text types can be handled
 * natively. Hence, the need for transfer-encodings is not present
 * any more.
 *
 * Only some cases are handled:
 *      - encoded header fields are decoded from QP or B encoding.
 *        The charset is assumed to be iso-8859-1
 *      - part or subparts of content-type text only are decoded
 *      - all other content-types are passed transparently