On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Brad Goldsmith wrote:
I have a project requirement that needs to be able to parse a multipart mime
message to be able to pick out the attachments, process them and them put
them back again.
Would c-client fit the bill for this kind of job?
I don't know what you mean by "process them and the[n?] put them back
together again".
c-client is certainly capable of parsing an arbitrarily complex multipart
MIME message and return a tree-structured representation of the MIME
structure. Having that tree structure, you can calculate IMAP-style body
part specifier; and a different c-client function can retrieve the desired
part from the overall message. mtest demonstrates how you calculate the
body part specifier from the tree structure.
c-client is not the most complex API out there; in fact it is a gem of
simplicity compared to OpenSSL, GSSAPI, or any Microsoft API.
Nevertheless, it isn't trivial either.
My entire purpose for writing c-client was that I process email, including
MIME, in multiple programs; and I really didn't want to write the same
code to do the same tasks over and over again.
-- Mark --
http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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