2 by Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj@gnome.org>
8 GMime is a C/C++ library for parsing and creating messages using
9 the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) as defined by the
12 * 0822: Standard for the Format of Arpa Internet Text Messages
13 * 1521: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One:
14 Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of
15 Internet Message Bodies
16 * 1847: Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and
18 * 1864: The Content-MD5 Header Field (Obsoletes rfc1544)
19 * 2015: MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
20 * 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One:
21 Format of Internet Message Bodies
22 * 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two:
24 * 2047: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Three:
25 Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
26 * 2048: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four:
27 Registration Procedures
28 * 2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five:
29 Conformance Criteria and Examples
30 * 2183: Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages:
31 The Content-Disposition Header Field
32 * 2184: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character
33 Sets, Languages, and Continuations
34 * 2231: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character
35 Sets, Languages, and Continuations (Obsoletes rfc2184)
36 * 2822: Internet Message Format (Obsoletes rfc822)
37 * 3156: MIME Security with OpenPGP (Updates rfc2015)
38 * 5322: Internet Message Format (Obsoletes rfc2822)
40 Other RFCs of interest:
42 * 1872: The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
43 * 1927: Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents
44 * 2111: Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators
45 * 2311: S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification
46 * 2312: S/MIME Version 2 Certificate Handling
47 * 2387: The Multipart/Related Content-Type.
48 * 2424: Content Duration MIME Header Definition
49 * 2630: Cryptographic Message Syntax
50 * 2632: S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling
51 * 2633: S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification
52 * 2634: Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME
53 * 3280: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure certificate and
54 Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
56 Cryptography related RFCs:
58 * 2268: A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption Algorithm
59 * 2313: PKCS #1: RSA Encryption
60 * 2314: PKCS #10: Certification Request Syntax
61 * 2315: PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax
62 * 2631: Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method
68 The GMime library is Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Jeffrey Stedfast.
70 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
71 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
72 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
73 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
75 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
76 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
77 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
78 Lesser General Public License for more details.
80 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
81 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
82 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
88 As a developer and user of Electronic Mail clients, I had come to
89 realize that the vast majority of E-Mail client (and server) software
90 had less-than-satisfactory MIME implementations. More often than not
91 these E-Mail clients created broken MIME messages and/or would
92 incorrectly try to parse a MIME message thus subtracting from the full
93 benefits that MIME was meant to provide. GMime is meant to address
94 this issue by following the MIME specification as closely as possible
95 while also providing programmers with an extremely easy to use
96 high-level application programming interface (API).
102 Sources to GMime may be obtained from:
103 http://download.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/
105 ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/
107 Information regarding GMime may be obtained from the Spruce home page:
108 http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
110 Experimental versions of GMime may be obtained by following the
111 directions at http://developer.gnome.org/tools/svn.html
113 git clone git://git.gnome.org/gmime
119 For proper compilation and functionality of GMime, the following packages
122 - Glib version >= 2.18.0
124 Glib provides a number of portability-enhancing functions and types.
125 Glib is included in most GMime-supported operating system
126 distributions. Glib sources may be obtained from:
127 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib
133 This is the README file for GMime. Additional documentation related to
134 development using GMime has been included within the source release
137 docs/reference/ Contains SGML and HTML versions of the GMime
140 docs/tutorial/ Contains SGML and HTML versions of the GMime
143 AUTHORS List of primary authors (source code developers)
145 COPYING The GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2
147 ChangeLog Log of changes made to the source code
149 INSTALL In-depth installation instructions
151 NEWS Release notes (Overview of changes)
153 TODO Description of planned GMime development
155 PORTING Guide for developers porting their application
156 from an older version of GMime
159 You can find online developer documentation at
160 http://library.gnome.org/devel/gmime/stable/
166 For discussion of GMime development (either of GMime itself or using
167 GMime in your own application), you may find the GMime-Devel
168 mailing-list helpful. To subscribe, please see
169 http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gmime-devel-list
175 Other developers have been working to make GMime available to
176 programmers in other languages. The current list of known bindings
179 - Perl: http://search.cpan.org/dist/MIME-Fast/
181 - .NET (Mono): Included in this distribution.
187 Bugs may be reported to the GMime development team by submitting a bug
188 report for the gmime module at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/