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    From Oleg Broytman@phd@phdru.name to comp.lang.python.announce on Sun May 23 16:50:18 2021
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    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 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.

    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:

    mimedecode -t application/pdf -t application/postscript -t text/plain -b text/html -B 'image/*' -i '*/*'


    Version 3.1.0 (2021-05-23)

    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    Replaced outdated and insecure `mktemp` with `NamedTemporaryFile`.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 2.7 or Python 3.4+, m_lib.defenc 1.0+.
    Tests require: tox, m_lib 3.1+.

    Recommends: configured mailcap database.

    Documentation: https://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) 2001-2021 PhiloSoft Design.

    LICENSE
    GPL

    Oleg.
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