- mimedecode.py
+ mimedecode
WHAT IS IT
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.
+different encodings and charsets. Usually this is good because it allows
+us to 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.
+ Here is the solution - mimedecode.
- 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.
+ 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 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.
+ Think about said mail archive; for example, its maintainer wants to
+put there only texts, convert PDF/Postscript to text, pass HTML and
+images decoding base64 to html but leaving images encoded, and ignore
+everything else. This is how it could be done:
-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.
+ mimedecode -t application/pdf -t application/postscript -t text/plain -b text/html -B 'image/*' -i '*/*'
-WHAT'S NEW in version 2.0.0
- Major rewrite to use python email package.
+Version 3.1.0.post2
-WHERE TO GET
- Master site: http://phd.pp.ru/Software/Python/#mimedecode
+ Python 3.11.
+
+Version 3.1.0.post1 (2021-09-24)
+
+ GitHub Actions.
+
+ Stop testing at Travis.
+
+Version 3.1.0 (2021-05-23)
- Faster mirrors: http://phd.by.ru/Software/Python/#mimedecode
- http://phd.webhost.ru/Software/Python/#mimedecode
+ Convert mimedecode.docbook to reST. Generate html/man/text
+ using Sphinx.
+
+ Replaced outdated and insecure `mktemp` with `NamedTemporaryFile`.
+
+ Python 3.8, 3.9.
+
+
+WHERE TO GET
+ Home page: https://phdru.name/Software/Python/#mimedecode
+ git clone https://github.com/phdru/mimedecode.git
+ git clone https://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git
+ git clone git://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git
- Requires: Python 2.2.2+
+ Requires: Python 2.7 or Python 3.4+, m_lib.defenc 1.0+.
+ Tests require: tox, m_lib 3.1+.
Recommends: configured mailcap database.
- Documentation (also included in the package):
- http://phd.pp.ru/Software/Python/mimedecode.txt
- http://phd.by.ru/Software/Python/mimedecode.txt
- http://phd.webhost.ru/Software/Python/mimedecode.txt
+ Documentation: https://phdru.name/Software/Python/mimedecode.html
+ (also included in the package in html, man and txt formats).
AUTHOR
- Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>
+ Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
COPYRIGHT
- Copyright (C) 2001-2006 PhiloSoft Design
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2022 PhiloSoft Design.
LICENSE
GPL