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#+TITLE: guile-email
guile-email is a collection of email utilities implemented in pure
guile. It supports parsing MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) compliant email messages and reading emails from the mbox
format.
guile-email is used by [[https://git.elephly.net/software/mumi.git][mumi]], a web interface to the [[https://www.debian.org/Bugs/][Debbugs]] bug
tracker. Mumi is primarily used by [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/][the Guix project]] at
https://issues.guix.info.
* Features
- Parse [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322][RFC5322]] compliant email messages (currently does not support
[[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-4][obsolete syntax]])
- Parse MIME compliant email messages as specified in [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045][RFC2045]],
[[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046][RFC2046]], [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047][RFC2047]] and [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2049][RFC2049]]
- Parse non-standard [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mail-Headers.html][Emacs message mode parens style addresses]]
- Encode and decode Quoted-Printable encoding, Base64 encoding and
Q-encoding
- Read emails from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox][mbox format]]
* Documentation
[[https://guile-email.systemreboot.net/manual/][Documentation for guile-email]] is available online. If guile-email is
installed on your machine, you may also read the manual using your
info browser.
* Future work
- Support obsolete syntax as specified in RFC5322
- Support MIME parameter value and encoded word extensions specified
in RFC2231
- Support decoding PGP encrypted/signed messages
- Support email generation
* Contributing
Feedback, suggestions, feature requests, bug reports and patches are
all welcome. Please write to the mailing list at
[[mailto:guile-email@systemreboot.net][guile-email@systemreboot.net]]. You may also [[https://lists.systemreboot.net/listinfo/guile-email][subscribe]] to the mailing
list or browse the [[https://lists.systemreboot.net/archives/guile-email/][archives]] of previous discussions on the mailing
list.
* License
guile-email is free software released under the terms of the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html][GNU
Affero General Public License]], either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
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