Kinda a strange question, maybe... but I was not sure where else to ask about this :P
I have an email in my in-box that was sent to me by our Forum software, but I'd like to slightly modify it's SUBJECT line.
Reason is because after it was sent, I edited the forum's template so that in the future all of these message's subject will be different.
But THIS first one isn't gonna fit that template: I want to save it for future reference, but with the same subject line as the others will have from now on.
I have access to our web hosting account (on HostGator) and I see a lot of email files off the main root in a \mail folder there. Looking thru some of those files, they seem to be mostly plain-text but a lot of other files with 'system' filenames ("dovecot" and the like) and index files etc.
The file for this email in particular hasn't got the actual SUBJECT text in it, even though the rest of the file appears to be plain text (?).
The file has a cryptic filename "1391XXXXXX.H993443XXXXXX.gatorXXXX.hostgator.com,S=1376_2,S" for example.
Inside it, where it says "subject" it has: "Subject: =?UTF-8?B?QWN0aXZhdGUgdXNlciBhY2NvdW50?="
The SUBJECT: text as it appears in my in-box is : "Activate user account"
I want to change it simply to say: "Activate MWBJ Account"
But... where is this text? I can't seem to find it.
I assume this string: ?UTF-8?B?QWN0aXZhdGUgdXNlciBhY2NvdW50?= is some kind of pointer to some entry of text for the subject line in some database or file somewhere, but no idea where it is and can't seem to find it.
Any help??? Thx in advance :)
QuoteInside it, where it says "subject" it has: "Subject: =?UTF-8?B?QWN0aXZhdGUgdXNlciBhY2NvdW50?="
that is the subject header and its value, in this case the value is base64 encoded.
Hi John:
Okay... thanks. So then next question is, can I somehow decode it, edit it to say what I want, re-encode it, and then copy and paste it back and upload/overwrite the file to make the change?
Any suggestion for software or websites, etc, that I'd need to do it, if it's possible?
Thx :)
P.S. {Update} Oops... never mind. Found it myself. Google is your friend. This site worked perfect for it:
http://www.base64encode.org/
Copy/Paste into the file, date-time stamp back to original, upload with timestamp preserved on the server and original email appears hacked into showing subject message I want. Cool.