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How can I extract an attachment from the email body (encoded as base64)

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How can I extract attachments from an email when they arrive encoded in the body of the email like this:

Error Output

------ =_NEXTPART_FORMSCAPE_MAIL_message101122101615
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="MyFile_hasalongish
     filename_22-NOV-2010.pdf"
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Copy only the base64 encoded text into a new text file . I just decoded a base64 stream that had an extra bit on the end that I had to remove. It looked like this: . Before I removed it I got the error: After I deleted it, no decoding errors and it …

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