mime-tool - a simple program to construct MIME messages with attached files

mime is written by Jeffrey Dutky <dutky@bellatlantic.net>

       Oscar Esteban spotted an off-by-one error in the base64 encoding function.

       Sergey Lapin spotted a bug in the filename header construction.

       Chris Hemphill noticed that the documentation (this manual page and the README file) didn't  include  any
       examples of how to call the program with common mail commands.

       Some additional fixes and additions by Phil Brooke to support Topal.

       The     original     MIME-tool     package     can    be    downloaded    from    my    web    page    at
       http://members.bellatlantic.net/~dutky

       This modified version is distributed with Topal:

       http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.brooke/topal/

MIME tool                                             mime                                  MIMEmessagetool(1)

       The  mime  program  constructs  MIME  messages with attached files. The user can specify the content type
       (application/octet-stream, text/plain or a user specified  type),  content  type  encoding  (7bit,  8bit,
       binary,  base64  and  auto-detect),  content  disposition  (attached  or inline) and the content boundary
       string.  The user can also specify some mail related options: subject, from-address, to-address,  carbon-
       copy address, prolog-text and epilog-text.

       The  output of the MIME-tool program can be sent directly to the mail, mailx or sendmail commands (or any
       other command that accepts RFC-822 formatted messages).

       NOTE: Specifying 7-bit encoding for an attachment that contains 8-bit data will convert  any  data  bytes
       whose high-bit is set to question marks.

       Using MIME-tool to write a mail message to a file:

              mime -S "test message" -F me@foo.net -T someone@somewhere.net file1 > test.msg

       Using MIME-tool with the mail command:

              mime -S "test message" -F me@foo.net file1 | mail someone@somewhere.net

       Using MIME-tool with the mailx command:

              mime -S "test message" -F me@foo.net file1 | mailx someone@somewhere.net

       Using MIME-tool with the sendmail command:

              mime -S "test message" -F me@foo.net file1 | sendmail someone@somewhere.net

       Most  of the header values are not properly quoted or folded, so long or complex values for these headers
       may cause problems. Specifically, the  from-address,  to-address,  carbon-copy-address  and  content-type
       headers may not be properly quoted or folded.

       For  some  reason,  certain  e-mail  clients (espcially from a large software company located in Redmond,
       Washington) don't seem to recognize file attachments as attachments, but instead displays them as  inline
       attachments.   (maybe  this  isn't  MIME-tool's  fault,  but  I've  gotten a few e-mails about it, so I'm
       mentioning it here)

       mime-tool - a simple program to construct MIME messages with attached files

-7     7-bit ASCII encoding

       -8     8-bit ASCII encoding

       -a     application/octet-stream content type

       -b     binary encoding

       -d     low detail debugging

       -D     high detail debugging

       -s     write a subpart

       -i     disposition: inline (instead of attachment)

       -q     quoted-printable encoding

       -ccontent-type
              explicit content type

       -t     text/plain content type

       -o     omit disposition line

       -u     unknown encoding, auto-detect

       -v     verbose messages

       -V     very verbose messages

       -x     base64 encoding

       -p     copy existing MIME part

       -o     omit content-disposition

       -m     omit content-transfer-encoding

       -nfilename
              override the filename in the disposition header

       -N     don't add a filename parameter in the disposition header

       -0     no-op

mime  [  -dDvV  ]  [  -S  subject ] [ -F from-address ] [ -T to-address ] [ -C carbon-copy address ] [ -P
       prolog-text ] [ -E epiplogue-text ] [ -B boundary ] [ -O overall content-type ] { [ -78abiquxopm ]  [  -t
       content-type ] filename }

       This is version 1.5.topal3 from June 2009.