What is .eml?

[Adrian Puente Z.]

  The way the email's binary attachments are sent through Internet is
converting this files to uuencode Text format. So if you can open it in
the gedit is norlmal the eml files are from Outlook but thunderbird can
generate them too.

  You can test if the format is uuencode, it starts with

begin 664 ee
M86-P:0IA9&1U<V5R+F-O;F8*861J=&EM90IA;&EA<V5S"F%L=&5R;F%T:79E
M<PIA;F%C<F]N=&%B"F%P86-H93(*87!G+F-O;F8*87!M"F%P<&%R;6]R"F%P
M=`IA="YD96YY"F%V86AI"F)A<V at N8F%S:')C"F)A<VA?8V]M;6%N9%]N;W1?
M9F]U;F0*8F%S:%]C;VUP;&5T:6]N"F)A<VA?8V]M<&QE=&EO;BYD"F)E86=L
M90IB96QO8W,*8FET8VAX"F)L:VED+G1A8 at IB;&MI9"YT86(N;VQD"F)L=65T
M;V]T:`IB;V=O9FEL=&5R+F-F"F)O;F]B;RUA8W1I=F%T:6]N"F)R;&%P:2YK

is uuencoded with no options

if the file has something like this:

begin-base64 664 ee
YWNwaQphZGR1c2VyLmNvbmYKYWRqdGltZQphbGlhc2VzCmFsdGVybmF0aXZl
cwphbmFjcm9udGFiCmFwYWNoZTIKYXBnLmNvbmYKYXBtCmFwcGFybW9yCmFw
...
dAphdC5kZW55CmF2YWhpCmJhc2guYmFzaHJjCmJhc2hfY29tbWFuZF9ub3Rf
Zm91bmQKYmFzaF9jb21wbGV0aW9uCmJhc2hfY29tcGxldGlvbi5kCmJlYWds
====

It is uuencoded on base64. I remembered some years a trick with the
wrong uuencoded attachments: If you copy the text from the beggining to
the end to another text file, then you can use the uudecode to open it.

In windows you put the .b64 extension and open it with winzip.

cheers,

Karl Larsen escribió:
>     I have some files sent to me by Igor in Russia that are 
> filename_pps.eml and when I click on the file it comes up in Gedit. I 
> wonder if .eml is a compressed for or something? Perhaps like .zip?
> 
> Karl
> 

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