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
-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 2.1.2 (2013-07-26)
- Minor fix in Makefile. Switched to git.
+WHAT'S NEW in version 2.5.0 (2014-03-??)
-WHAT'S NEW in version 2.1.1 (2012-04-15)
- Removed svn:keywords.
+ Add option --set-header=header:value to set header's value (only at the top
+level).
-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.
+ Add option --set-param=header:param=value to set header parameter's value
+(only at the top level). The header must exist.
-WHAT'S NEW in version 2.0.0
- Major rewrite to use python email package.
+ Add option -B to skip content-transfer-decoding binary attachments.
+
+ Fix a minor bug: if a multipart message (or a subpart) lacks any textual
+content - avoid putting an excessive newline.
+
+WHAT'S NEW in version 2.4.0 (2014-03-08)
+
+ Change option -d to accept a comma-separated list of headers:
+-d h1,h2,h3,...
+
+ Change option -d to decode all headers and accept a list of exceptions:
+-d *,-h1,-h2,...
+
+ Change option -p to accept lists of headers and parameters:
+-p h1,h2,h3,..:p1,p2,p3,..
+
+ Allow * and exceptions for -p in the headers and parameters lists:
+-p *,-h1,-h2,-h3:p1,p2,p3
+-p h1,h2,h3:*,-p1,-p2,-p3
+-p *,-h1,-h2,-h3:*,-p1,-p2,-p3
+
+ Change option -r to accept a list of headers: -r h1,h2,h3,...
+
+ Change option -r to remove all headers and accept a list of exceptions:
+-r *,-h1,-h2,...
+
+ Change option -R to accept lists of headers and parameters:
+-R h1,h2,h3:p1,p2,p3
+-R h1,h2,h3:*,-p1,-p2,-p3
+-R *,-h1,-h2,-h3:p1,p2,p3
+-R *,-h1,-h2,-h3:*,-p1,-p2,-p3
+
+ Publish docs in html format.
+
+ Add ChangeLog.
+
+WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.7 (2014-02-23)
+
+ Add option -r to remove headers and option -R to remove headers parameters.
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 2.2.2+, m_lib 2.0+.
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
- Copyright (C) 2001-2013 PhiloSoft Design
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2014 PhiloSoft Design.
LICENSE
GPL
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