On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:59:47PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> It requires both full-blown MIME parsing and full-blown header parsing
> (which is probably reasonable these days, but certainly has slowed its
> adoption -- MIME parsing has only in the past year or two really become
> something I would want to rely on).
I was a little shocked to find that no one seems to have yet written
a general-purpose MIME parsing library in C. Having one would
probably encourage more MIME awareness in other tools.
In the absence of anything else, I wrote a program to parse enough
MIME to extract the text/plain portion from multipart/mixed bodies,
but it would definitely be useful to expand this to an all-singing-
all-dancing MIME manipulation tool. I just can't figure out what
the API should look like. (Maybe that's why no one else has done it.)
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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer
