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 next chapter (see section 1. Decoding and Viewing).

4.1 rfc2045		Encoding Content-Type headers.
4.2 rfc2231		Parsing Content-Type headers.
4.3 ietf-drums		Handling mail headers defined by RFC822bis.
4.4 rfc2047		En/decoding encoded words in headers.
4.5 time-date		Functions for parsing dates and manipulating time.
4.6 qp		Quoted-Printable en/decoding.
4.7 base64		Base64 en/decoding.
4.8 binhex		Binhex decoding.
4.9 uudecode		Uuencode decoding.
4.10 yenc		Yenc decoding.
4.11 rfc1843		Decoding HZ-encoded text.
4.12 mailcap		How parts are displayed is specified by the `.mailcap' file