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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
(see Decoding and Viewing).
| • rfc2045: | Encoding Content-Type headers.
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| • rfc2231: | Parsing Content-Type headers.
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| • 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 |