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MIME::Mini - Minimal code to parse/create mbox files and mail messages

Description

MIME::Mini is a small perl module containing a collection of functions that parse and/or create mailbox (mbox) files and individual mail messages.

It is an alternative to MIME-tools. MIME-tools does things that this module doesn't (such as uuencode and binhex decoding). And this module does things that MIME-tools doesn't do, such as reading and writing mbox files (repairing incorrectly formatted ones along the way), and transparently unravelling winmail.dat attachments (aka MS-TNEF).

It is very small (about 3% of the size of MIME-tools and the other modules that it requires, and about 20% of the size of I (which doesn't parse)), so it takes much less time during program start up. This makes it more suitable for uses that require a separate process for each mail message, such as in procmail recipes.

The following RFCs are relevant:

• RFC2822 - Internet Message Format
• RFC2045 - (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
• RFC2046 - (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
• RFC2047 - (MIME) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
• RFC2231 - MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
• RFC2183 - Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field
• RFC3282 - Content Language Headers
• RFC3066 - Tags for the Identification of Languages
• RFC2424 - Content Duration MIME Header Definition
• RFC2557 - MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML)
• RFC3297 - Content Negotiation for Messaging Services based on Email
• RFC2912 - Indicating Media Features for MIME Content
• RFC2533 - A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets
• RFC1864 - The Content-MD5 Header Field
• RFC2387 - The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
• RFC2912 - Indicating Media Features for MIME Content
• RFC2533 - A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets
• RFC2076 - Common Internet Message Headers

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

Documentation

There is a manual entry:

• https://metacpan.org/pod/MIME::Mini

Download

MIME::Mini is on CPAN:

• https://metacpan.org/dist/MIME-Mini

And can be installed using any CPAN client:

    cpanm MIME::Mini

Requirements

MIME::Mini is a perl module and requires no non-standard modules. It should work on any system with any version of perl since v5.14.

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URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/MIME-Mini
GIT: https://github.com/rafmod/MIME-Mini
GIT: https://codeberg.org/rafmod/MIME-Mini
Date: 20240424
Author: raf <raf@raf.org>