Greetings all- I am trying to extract subject headers from emails that
have been saved as text files. The subject headers are in MIME UTF-8
format, and so they appear like this:

subject:
=?utf-8?B?QVVUTyBQRU9QTEUgLS0gTWFuaGVpbeKAmXMgSmVmZiBCdW5jaCBpbiBIaWdoYmVhbXM7IExlZ2VuZGFyeSBSZWQgTWNDb21iczsgV2hv4oCZcyBTaGlmdGluZyBHZWFycz87IE1vcmU=?=

What class can I use to decode the subject text?

That's not MIME format. MIME provides separation of message parts and
embedding of messages within other messages.

That's probably base64 or uuencode or something like that, not sure
exactly. The MIME header should have an encoding line which says what
encoding is used for the rest of the message. Most commonly MIME
messages are encoded with Quoted-Printable for text and Base64 for
binary. QP looks pretty much just like regular text with a lot of
extra = signs.

If this isn't enough info, post more of the MIME message.

Sam

------------------------------------------------------------
We're hiring! B-Line Medical is seeking Mid/Sr. .NET
Developers for exciting positions in medical product
development in MD/DC. Work with a variety of technologies
in a relaxed team environment. See ads on Dice.com.


On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:05:03 -0600, b. dougherty
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Greetings all- I am trying to extract subject headers from emails that
>have been saved as text files. The subject headers are in MIME UTF-8
>format, and so they appear like this:
>
>subject:
>=?utf-8?B?QVVUTyBQRU9QTEUgLS0gTWFuaGVpbeKAmXMgSmVmZiBCdW5jaCBpbiBIaWdoYmVhbXM7IExlZ2VuZGFyeSBSZWQgTWNDb21iczsgV2hv4oCZcyBTaGlmdGluZyBHZWFycz87IE1vcmU=?=
>
>What class can I use to decode the subject text?

Sorry, it appears to be a message header extension, formatted as
described in section 4.1 of this:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047

Any idea what class can decode this? Here's a larger snippet of the
mail:

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Content-Type: message/rfc822

Received: from SERVER ([x.x.x.x]) by x.com with Microsoft
SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:12:17 -0800
mime-version: 1.0
from: "User" <(E-Mail Removed)>
to: (E-Mail Removed)
date: 13 Dec 2006 22:12:17 -0800
subject:
=?utf-8?B?QVVUTyBQRU9QTEUgLS0gTWFuaGVpbeKAmXMgSmVmZiBCdW5jaCBpbiBIaWdoYmVhbXM7IExlZ2VuZGFyeSBSZWQgTWNDb21iczsgV2hv4oCZcyBTaGlmdGluZyBHZWFycz87IE1vcmU=?=
content-type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=--boundary_54358_dc8ddb80-9498-4b90-8e3e-3d2c411a5160

--------------------------------------------------------------------



On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:35:05 -0500, Samuel R. Neff
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>That's not MIME format. MIME provides separation of message parts and
>embedding of messages within other messages.
>
>That's probably base64 or uuencode or something like that, not sure
>exactly. The MIME header should have an encoding line which says what
>encoding is used for the rest of the message. Most commonly MIME
>messages are encoded with Quoted-Printable for text and Base64 for
>binary. QP looks pretty much just like regular text with a lot of
>extra = signs.
>
>If this isn't enough info, post more of the MIME message.
>
>Sam
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>We're hiring! B-Line Medical is seeking Mid/Sr. .NET
>Developers for exciting positions in medical product
>development in MD/DC. Work with a variety of technologies
>in a relaxed team environment. See ads on Dice.com.
>
>
>On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:05:03 -0600, b. dougherty
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Greetings all- I am trying to extract subject headers from emails that
>>have been saved as text files. The subject headers are in MIME UTF-8
>>format, and so they appear like this:
>>
>>subject:
>>=?utf-8?B?QVVUTyBQRU9QTEUgLS0gTWFuaGVpbeKAmXMgSmVmZiBCdW5jaCBpbiBIaWdoYmVhbXM7IExlZ2VuZGFyeSBSZWQgTWNDb21iczsgV2hv4oCZcyBTaGlmdGluZyBHZWFycz87IE1vcmU=?=
>>
>>What class can I use to decode the subject text?

b. dougherty wrote:
> Greetings all- I am trying to extract subject headers from emails that
> have been saved as text files. The subject headers are in MIME UTF-8
> format, and so they appear like this:
>
> subject:
> =?utf-8?B?QVVUTyBQRU9QTEUgLS0gTWFuaGVpbeKAmXMgSmVmZiBCdW5jaCBpbiBIaWdoYmVhbXM7IExlZ2VuZGFyeSBSZWQgTWNDb21iczsgV2hv4oCZcyBTaGlmdGluZyBHZWFycz87IE1vcmU=?=
>
> What class can I use to decode the subject text?

Try this:

public static string Decode(string s)
{
MatchCollection rr = Regex.Matches(s,
@"(?:=\?)([^\?]+)(?:\?B\?)([^\?]*)(?:\?=)");
string charset = rr[0].Groups[1].Value;
string data = rr[0].Groups[2].Value;
byte[] b = Convert.FromBase64String(data);
string res = Encoding.GetEncoding(charset).GetString(b);
return res;
}

Arne

Arne, that worked perfectly. Thank you very much!


On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:12:31 -0500, Arne Vajhøj <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>b. dougherty wrote:
>> Greetings all- I am trying to extract subject headers from emails that
>> have been saved as text files. The subject headers are in MIME UTF-8
>> format, and so they appear like this:
>>
>> subject:
>> =?utf-8?B?QVVUTyBQRU9QTEUgLS0gTWFuaGVpbeKAmXMgSmVmZiBCdW5jaCBpbiBIaWdoYmVhbXM7IExlZ2VuZGFyeSBSZWQgTWNDb21iczsgV2hv4oCZcyBTaGlmdGluZyBHZWFycz87IE1vcmU=?=
>>
>> What class can I use to decode the subject text?
>
>Try this:
>
> public static string Decode(string s)
> {
> MatchCollection rr = Regex.Matches(s,
>@"(?:=\?)([^\?]+)(?:\?B\?)([^\?]*)(?:\?=)");
> string charset = rr[0].Groups[1].Value;
> string data = rr[0].Groups[2].Value;
> byte[] b = Convert.FromBase64String(data);
> string res = Encoding.GetEncoding(charset).GetString(b);
> return res;
> }
>
>Arne