X-Git-Url: https://git.phdru.name/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=5ef3cc2a07c482e1c693533b200cd3c3ce6200a7;hb=e5ae9cbc87c7fab8fe8070e14118e78b2311c5d6;hp=65502d32c1454ab551ea0ff01e054823dbdf06b1;hpb=b8c9e72ff8a755f2a647881c9f5cac3a4e322c70;p=mimedecode.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 65502d3..5ef3cc2 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,59 +1,68 @@ - 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. -WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.1 (2014-01-31) - Update documentation. + 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 2.3.0 (2014-01-30) - Add option -o and output_file argument. + mimedecode -t application/pdf -t application/postscript -t text/plain -b text/html -B 'image/*' -i '*/*' - Forbid filtering from console to console. When the program runs - with no parameters and without any redirection it shows usage help. -WHAT'S NEW in version 2.2.0 (2013-12-21) - Rename __version__.py to mimedecode_version.py. +Version 2.9.0 (2017-12-12) - Use setuptools. + Split mimedecode.py into mimedecode library and a small script. + + Make the library executable via ``python -m mimedecode``. + +Version 2.8.0 (2017-11-03) + + Python 3. + + Stop supporting Python 2.6. WHERE TO GET Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/Python/#mimedecode + git clone https://github.com/phdru/mimedecode.git git clone http://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git git clone git://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git - Requires: Python 2.2.2+ + Requires: Python 2.7 or Python 3.3+, m_lib.defenc 1.0+. + Tests require: tox, m_lib 3.1+. 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 COPYRIGHT - Copyright (C) 2001-2014 PhiloSoft Design + Copyright (C) 2001-2018 PhiloSoft Design. LICENSE GPL