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    Mail users, especially in non-English countries, often find that mail
 messages arrived in different formats, with different content types, in
 different encodings and charsets. Usually this is good because it allows us to
    Mail users, especially in non-English countries, often find that mail
 messages arrived in different formats, with different content types, in
 different encodings and charsets. Usually this is good because it allows us to

-use apropriate format/encoding/whatever. Sometimes, though, some unification is
-desireable. For example, one may want to put mail messages into an archive,
-make HTML indicies, run search indexer, etc. In such situations converting
-messages to text in one character set and skipping some binary atachmetnts is
-much desireable.
+use appropriate format/encoding/whatever. Sometimes, though, some unification
+is desirable. For example, one may want to put mail messages into an archive,
+make HTML indices, run search indexer, etc. In such situations converting
+messages to text in one character set and skipping some binary attachments is
+much desirable.

 
    Here is the solution - mimedecode.py.
 
    This is a program to decode MIME messages. The program expects one input
 
    Here is the solution - mimedecode.py.
 
    This is a program to decode MIME messages. The program expects one input

-file (either on command line or on stdin) which is treated as an RFC822 mesage,
-and decoded to stdout. If the file is not an RFC822 message it is just piped to
-stdout one-to-one. If the file is a simple RFC822 message it is just decoded as
-one part. If it is a MIME message with multiple parts ("attachments") all parts
-are decoded. Decoding can be controlled by command-line options.
+file (either on command line or on stdin) which is treated as an RFC822
+message, and decodes to stdout or an output file. If the file is not an RFC822
+message it is just copied to the output one-to-one. If the file is a simple
+RFC822 message it is decoded as one part. If it is a MIME message with multiple
+parts ("attachments") all parts are decoded. Decoding can be controlled by
+command-line options.

 
 
 
 

-WHAT'S NEW in version 2.1.3 (2013-12-10)
-   Minor bugfix.
+Version 2.6.0 (2014-06-08)

 
 

-WHAT'S NEW in version 2.1.2 (2013-07-26)
-   Minor fix in Makefile. Switched to git.
+   Make options -e/-i to work with multipart subparts.

 
 

-WHAT'S NEW in version 2.1.1 (2012-04-15)
-   Removed svn:keywords.
+   Add option -I to completely ignore a part - no headers, no body,
+   no warning.

 
 

-WHAT'S NEW in version 2.1.0 (2006-04-27)
-   A patch by Bogdan Maryniuk <bogdan.maryniuk@gmail.com>:
-portable way to get the default charset.
+   Open all output files in binary mode. Output os.linesep instead of '\n'.

 
 

-WHAT'S NEW in version 2.0.0
-   Major rewrite to use python email package.
+   Test --save-headers|body|message masks one after another to allow
+   saving a message or a subpart to more than one file.
+
+WHAT'S NEW in version 2.5.0 (2014-03-18)
+
+   Add option --set-header=header:value to set header's value (only at the top
+level).
+
+   Add option --set-param=header:param=value to set header parameter's value
+(only at the top level). The header must exist.
+
+   Add option -B to skip content-transfer-decoding binary attachments.
+
+   Add options --save-headers, --save-body and --save-message to save decoded
+headers/bodies/messages to files.
+
+   Add option -O to set the destination directory for output files.
+
+   Fix a minor bug: if a multipart message (or a subpart) lacks any textual
+content - avoid putting an excessive newline.

 
 
 WHERE TO GET
    Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/Python/#mimedecode
     git clone http://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git
 
 
 WHERE TO GET
    Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/Python/#mimedecode
     git clone http://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git

-     git clone git://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git
+    git clone  git://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git

 
 

-   Requires: Python 2.2.2+
+   Requires: Python 2.6+, m_lib 3.1+, m_lib.defenc 1.0+.

 
    Recommends: configured mailcap database.
 
 
    Recommends: configured mailcap database.
 

-   Documentation (also included in the package):
-           http://phdru.name/Software/Python/mimedecode.txt
-
+   Documentation: http://phdru.name/Software/Python/mimedecode.html
+      (also included in the package in html, man and txt formats).

 
 AUTHOR
    Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
 
 COPYRIGHT
 
 AUTHOR
    Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
 
 COPYRIGHT

-   Copyright (C) 2001-2013 PhiloSoft Design
+   Copyright (C) 2001-2014 PhiloSoft Design.

 
 LICENSE
    GPL
 
 LICENSE
    GPL