4 Basic Functions ***************** This chapter describes the basic, ground-level functions for parsing and handling. Covered here is parsing ‘From’ lines, removing comments from header lines, decoding encoded words, parsing date headers and so on. High-level functionality is dealt with in the first chapter ( Decoding and Viewing).
· rfc2045 Encoding ‘Content-Type’ headers. · rfc2231 Parsing ‘Content-Type’ headers. · ietf-drums Handling mail headers defined by RFC822bis. · rfc2047 En/decoding encoded words in headers. · time-date Functions for parsing dates and manipulating time. · qp Quoted-Printable en/decoding. · base64 Base64 en/decoding. · binhex Binhex decoding. · uudecode Uuencode decoding. · yenc Yenc decoding. · rfc1843 Decoding HZ-encoded text. · mailcap How parts are displayed is specified by the ‘.mailcap’ file