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Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Jan=EDk) writes:

> of course I know this is SirCam. See the `;-)' at the end of sentence. The
> thing I'm trying to solve on the list of Gnus developers is to fix the
> apparent bug in Gnus which saves an article as plain base64 bytes without
> decoding... Just try it yourself and tell me, if it works for you.

It is a bug in 'base64-decode-region'.  Perhaps it's fixed in Emacs
21, I don't know.  The base64 encoding is indeed incorrect, and that's
why such stuff slips through quite a few mail inspection tools; but
'base64-decode-region' does not signal the error, but simply does
nothing.

> I;d like to really SEE the contents of the file they sent me...

Try mimencode, which comes with metamail.  It is more tolerant.