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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 next chapter
(see section 3. 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.
- rfc1843: Decoding HZ-encoded text.
- mailcap: How parts are displayed is specified by the `.mailcap' file
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