How do I decode enclosures in Blitzmail when they e sent from outside Dartmouth?
NOTE — Blitzmail 2.5 (and 2.1 to some extent) handle enclosures pretty well. The following (complicated) instructions apply only to older versions. Decoding attachments with older versions of Blitzmail is sort of a pain, but it can be done. What usually happens is you open up the message, and you either see some readable text and then a bunch of gobbledygook, or you get a warning that says the message is too long to be displayed. Well, the reason that the “message” is too long to be displayed is that the attached file has been turned into this stream of textual characters (encoded) so that the email system can understand it. So you have to undo that to get at the actual file. Here’s how to do it. Open the message (don’t worry if you get the warning that says it’s too long). Then go to the File menu and select “Save message…”. It will save the entire message (including the encoded file, even if you can’t see it all) as a Microsnot Word text file. Don’t open it in Word, that won’t acc
