Decoding MIME encoded email subject

[b. dougherty]

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?QVVUTyBQRU9 QTEUgLS0gTWFuaG VpbeKAmXMgSmVmZ iBCdW5jaCBpbiBI aWdoYmVhbXM7IEx lZ2VuZGFyeSBSZW QgTWNDb21iczsgV 2hv4oCZcyBTaGlm dGluZyBHZWFycz8 7IE1vcmU=?=

What class can I use to decode the subject text?

[Samuel R. Neff]

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
<au************ ****@austin.rr. comwrote:

>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?QVVUTyBQRU9 QTEUgLS0gTWFuaG VpbeKAmXMgSmVmZ iBCdW5jaCBpbiBI aWdoYmVhbXM7IEx lZ2VuZGFyeSBSZW QgTWNDb21iczsgV 2hv4oCZcyBTaGlm dGluZyBHZWFycz8 7IE1vcmU=?=

What class can I use to decode the subject text?

[b. dougherty]

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(6.0.379 0.1830);
Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:12:17 -0800
mime-version: 1.0
from: "User" <ma****@x.com >
to: [e-mail]
date: 13 Dec 2006 22:12:17 -0800
subject:
=?utf-8?B?QVVUTyBQRU9 QTEUgLS0gTWFuaG VpbeKAmXMgSmVmZ iBCdW5jaCBpbiBI aWdoYmVhbXM7IEx lZ2VuZGFyeSBSZW QgTWNDb21iczsgV 2hv4oCZcyBTaGlm dGluZyBHZWFycz8 7IE1vcmU=?=
content-type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=--boundary_54358_ dc8ddb80-9498-4b90-8e3e-3d2c411a5160

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

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:35:05 -0500, Samuel R. Neff
<sa********@nom ail.comwrote:

>
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
<au*********** *****@austin.rr .comwrote:

>>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?QVVUTyBQRU9 QTEUgLS0gTWFuaG VpbeKAmXMgSmVmZ iBCdW5jaCBpbiBI aWdoYmVhbXM7IEx lZ2VuZGFyeSBSZW QgTWNDb21iczsgV 2hv4oCZcyBTaGlm dGluZyBHZWFycz8 7IE1vcmU=?=

What class can I use to decode the subject text?

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

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?QVVUTyBQRU9 QTEUgLS0gTWFuaG VpbeKAmXMgSmVmZ iBCdW5jaCBpbiBI aWdoYmVhbXM7IEx lZ2VuZGFyeSBSZW QgTWNDb21iczsgV 2hv4oCZcyBTaGlm dGluZyBHZWFycz8 7IE1vcmU=?=

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.FromBas e64String(data) ;
string res = Encoding.GetEnc oding(charset). GetString(b);
return res;
}

Arne