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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-05-07 01:49:07 (GMT)
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-\section{Standard Module \module{mimify}}
-\label{module-mimify}
-\stmodindex{mimify}
-
-The mimify module defines two functions to convert mail messages to
-and from MIME format. The mail message can be either a simple message
-or a so-called multipart message. Each part is treated separately.
-Mimifying (a part of) a message entails encoding the message as
-quoted-printable if it contains any characters that cannot be
-represented using 7-bit ASCII. Unmimifying (a part of) a message
-entails undoing the quoted-printable encoding. Mimify and unmimify
-are especially useful when a message has to be edited before being
-sent. Typical use would be:
-
-\begin{verbatim}
-unmimify message
-edit message
-mimify message
-send message
-\end{verbatim}
-
-The modules defines the following user-callable functions and
-user-settable variables:
-
-\begin{funcdesc}{mimify}{infile, outfile}
-Copy the message in \var{infile} to \var{outfile}, converting parts to
-quoted-printable and adding MIME mail headers when necessary.
-\var{infile} and \var{outfile} can be file objects (actually, any
-object that has a \code{readline} method (for \var{infile}) or a
-\code{write} method (for \var{outfile})) or strings naming the files.
-If \var{infile} and \var{outfile} are both strings, they may have the
-same value.
-\end{funcdesc}
-
-\begin{funcdesc}{unmimify}{infile, outfile, decode_base64 = 0}
-Copy the message in \var{infile} to \var{outfile}, decoding all
-quoted-printable parts. \var{infile} and \var{outfile} can be file
-objects (actually, any object that has a \code{readline} method (for
-\var{infile}) or a \code{write} method (for \var{outfile})) or strings
-naming the files. If \var{infile} and \var{outfile} are both strings,
-they may have the same value.
-If the \var{decode_base64} argument is provided and tests true, any
-parts that are coded in the base64 encoding are decoded as well.
-\end{funcdesc}
-
-\begin{funcdesc}{mime_decode_header}{line}
-Return a decoded version of the encoded header line in \var{line}.
-\end{funcdesc}
-
-\begin{funcdesc}{mime_encode_header}{line}
-Return a MIME-encoded version of the header line in \var{line}.
-\end{funcdesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{MAXLEN}
-By default, a part will be encoded as quoted-printable when it
-contains any non-ASCII characters (i.e., characters with the 8th bit
-set), or if there are any lines longer than \code{MAXLEN} characters
-(default value 200).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-\begin{datadesc}{CHARSET}
-When not specified in the mail headers, a character set must be filled
-in. The string used is stored in \code{CHARSET}, and the default
-value is ISO-8859-1 (also known as Latin1 (latin-one)).
-\end{datadesc}
-
-This module can also be used from the command line. Usage is as
-follows:
-\begin{verbatim}
-mimify.py -e [-l length] [infile [outfile]]
-mimify.py -d [-b] [infile [outfile]]
-\end{verbatim}
-to encode (mimify) and decode (unmimify) respectively. \var{infile}
-defaults to standard input, \var{outfile} defaults to standard output.
-The same file can be specified for input and output.
-
-If the \code{-l} option is given when encoding, if there are any lines
-longer than the specified \var{length}, the containing part will be
-encoded.
-
-If the \code{-b} option is given when decoding, any base64 parts will
-be decoded as well.
-