X-Git-Url: https://git.phdru.name/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=a2be0e5e5959396fb85445cfff714d7b04a1231b;hb=c8623aa92c99464cd2405d31c376fa3da844c3e4;hp=8e93d641ef33037f40c01967be28b46a19879bc8;hpb=8e10da66fb950e5aecf811192723a3c604dada8e;p=mimedecode.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 8e93d64..a2be0e5 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,53 +1,62 @@ - 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 : -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 3.0.0 (2019-02-01) + + Python 3.7. + + Drop support for Python 3.3. WHERE TO GET - Master site: http://phd.pp.ru/Software/Python/#mimedecode - A mirror: http://phd.webhost.ru/Software/Python/#mimedecode + 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.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 + Oleg Broytman COPYRIGHT - Copyright (C) 2001-2006 PhiloSoft Design + Copyright (C) 2001-2018 PhiloSoft Design. LICENSE GPL