6 Mail users, especially in non-English countries, often find that mail
7 messages arrived in different formats, with different content types, in
8 different encodings and charsets. Usually this is good because it allows us to
9 use appropriate format/encoding/whatever. Sometimes, though, some unification
10 is desirable. For example, one may want to put mail messages into an archive,
11 make HTML indices, run search indexer, etc. In such situations converting
12 messages to text in one character set and skipping some binary attachments is
15 Here is the solution - mimedecode.py.
17 This is a program to decode MIME messages. The program expects one input
18 file (either on command line or on stdin) which is treated as an RFC822
19 message, and decodes to stdout or an output file. If the file is not an RFC822
20 message it is just copied to the output one-to-one. If the file is a simple
21 RFC822 message it is decoded as one part. If it is a MIME message with multiple
22 parts ("attachments") all parts are decoded. Decoding can be controlled by
25 WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.6 (2014-02-19)
27 Decode "To", "Cc", "Reply-To" and "Mail-Followup-To" headers by default.
29 Report test progress and success.
31 Add tests for headers and parameters decoding.
33 Add tests for passing (-b) and skipping (-i) message bodies.
35 WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.4 (2014-02-11)
37 Optimize recursive decoding.
39 Fix a bug - decode message/rfc822 subparts.
41 WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.3 (2014-02-02)
42 Forbid filtering from console. When the program runs with stdin
43 connected to the console it shows usage help.
45 Fix a bug - option -o and no parameters.
47 WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.2 (2014-02-01)
48 Fix a bug - do not generate 'From ' headers in subparts.
54 WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.1 (2014-01-31)
57 WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.0 (2014-01-30)
58 Add option -o and output_file argument.
60 WHAT'S NEW in version 2.2.0 (2013-12-21)
61 Rename __version__.py to mimedecode_version.py.
67 Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/Python/#mimedecode
68 git clone http://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git
69 git clone git://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git
71 Requires: Python 2.2.2+
73 Recommends: configured mailcap database.
75 Documentation (also included in the package):
76 http://phdru.name/Software/Python/mimedecode.txt
80 Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
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