NAME¶

mmime — create MIME messages

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

mmime generates a ‘multipart/mixed’ message from the standard input, extending, wrapping, and encoding the header as necessary, and replacing lines in the message body of the form

with a MIME part having Content-Type content/type, consisting of the contents of the file found at path. content-disposition is optional and defaults to ‘attachment’. filename is optional and defaults to the basename of path.

The options are as follows:

-c

Check mode: don't output anything, exit with status 1 if MIME-encoding the message is required, or else exit with status 0.

-r

Raw mode: don't expand MIME parts in the body, generate a ‘text/plain’ message.

-t content-type

Override Content-Type for the toplevel part. Defaults to ‘multipart/mixed’.

EXIT STATUS¶

The mmime utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO¶

makemime(1), mhbuild(1)

N. Freed and N. Borenstein, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies, RFC 2045, November 1996.

N. Freed and N. Borenstein, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types, RFC 2046, November 1996.

K. Moore, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text, RFC 2047, November 1996.

N. Freed and K. Moore, MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations, RFC 2231, November 1997.

P. Resnick (ed.), Internet Message Format, RFC 5322, October 2008.

AUTHORS¶

Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>

LICENSE¶

mmime is in the public domain.

To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

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