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<tr valign="top"><td width="33%" bgcolor="#666666" class="header">The README file</td><td width="33%" bgcolor="#666666" class="header">M.T. Rose</td></tr>
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<font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<h3>Abstract</h3>

<p>
Tcl MIME generates and parses MIME body parts.
</p>
<a name="toc"><br><hr size="1" shade="0"></a>
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<h3>Table of Contents</h3>
<ul compact class="toc">
<b><a href="#anchor1">1.</a>&nbsp;
SYNOPSIS<br></b>
<b><a href="#anchor2">1.1</a>&nbsp;
Requirements<br></b>
<b><a href="#anchor3">1.2</a>&nbsp;
Copyrights<br></b>
<b><a href="#anchor4">2.</a>&nbsp;
SYNTAX<br></b>
<b><a href="#anchor5">3.</a>&nbsp;
SEMANTICS<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_initialize">3.1</a>&nbsp;
mime::initialize<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_finalize">3.2</a>&nbsp;
mime::finalize<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_getproperty">3.3</a>&nbsp;
mime::getproperty<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_getheader">3.4</a>&nbsp;
mime::getheader<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_setheader">3.5</a>&nbsp;
mime::setheader<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_getbody">3.6</a>&nbsp;
mime::getbody<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_copymessage">3.7</a>&nbsp;
mime::copymessage<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_buildmessage">3.7</a>&nbsp;
mime::buildmessage<br></b>
<b><a href="#smtp_sendmessage">3.8</a>&nbsp;
smtp::sendmessage<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_parseaddress">3.9</a>&nbsp;
mime::parseaddress<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_parsedatetime">3.10</a>&nbsp;
mime::parsedatetime<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_mapencoding">3.10</a>&nbsp;
mime::mapencoding<br></b>
<b><a href="#mime_reversemapencoding">3.10</a>&nbsp;
mime::reversemapencoding<br></b>

<b><a href="#anchor6">4.</a>&nbsp;
EXAMPLES<br></b>
<b><a href="#rfc.references">&#167;</a>&nbsp;
References<br></b>
<b><a href="#rfc.authors">&#167;</a>&nbsp;
Author's Address<br></b>
<b><a href="#anchor7">A.</a>&nbsp;
TODO List<br></b>
<b><a href="#anchor8">B.</a>&nbsp;
Acknowledgements<br></b>
</ul>
<br clear="all">

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<h3>1.&nbsp;SYNOPSIS</h3>
</font><pre>
    package provide mime 1.2
    package provide smtp 1.2
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
Tcl MIME is an implementation of a Tcl package that generates and
parses <a href="#RFC2045">MIME</a>[1] body parts.
</p>

<p>
Each MIME part consists of a header
(zero or more key/value pairs), 
an empty line,
and a structured body.
A MIME part is either a "leaf" or has (zero or more) subordinates.
</p>

<p>
MIME defines four keys that may appear in the headers:

<blockquote class="text"><dl>

<dt>   Content-Type:</dt>
<dd>
describes the data contained in the body
("the content");
</dd>

<dt>   Content-Transfer-Encoding:</dt>
<dd>
describes how the content is
encoded for transmission in an ASCII stream;
</dd>

<dt>   Content-Description:</dt>
<dd>
a textual description of the
content; and,
</dd>

<dt>   Content-ID:</dt>
<dd>
a globally-unique identifier for the
content.
</dd>

</dl></blockquote>

</p>

<p>
Consult <a href="#RFC2046">[2]</a> for a list of standard content types.
Further,
consult <a href="#RFC822">[3]</a> for a list of several other header keys
(e.g., "To", "cc", etc.)
</p>

<p>
A simple example might be:
</p>
</font><pre>
    Date: Sun, 04 July 1999 10:38:25 -0600
    From: Marshall Rose &lt;mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>
    To: Andreas Kupries &lt;a.kupries@westend.com>
    cc: dnew@messagemedia.com (Darren New)
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    Content-Description: a simple example
    Content-ID: &lt;4294407315.931384918.1@dbc.mtview.ca.us>
    
    Here is the body. In this case, simply plain text.
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
In addition to an implementation of the mime package,
Tcl MIME includes an implementation of the smtp package.
</p>

<h4><a name="anchor2">1.1</a>&nbsp;Requirements</h4>

<p>
This package requires:

<ul class="text">

<li>
<a href="http://www.scriptics.com/software/8.1.html">Tcl/Tk version 8.0.3</a>
or later
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
In addition, this package requires one of the following:

<ul class="text">
<li>
<a href="http://www.oche.de/~akupries/soft/trf/">Trf version 2.0p5</a> or later
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://dev.ajubasolutions.com/software/tcllib/">base 64
version 2.0</a> or later (included with tcllib)
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
If it is available, Trf will be used to provide better performance;
if not, Tcl-only equivalent functions, based on the base64 package, are used.
</p>

<h4><a name="anchor3">1.2</a>&nbsp;Copyrights</h4>

<p>
(c) 1999-2000 Marshall T. Rose
</p>

<p>
Hold harmless the author, and any lawful use is allowed.
</p>

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<h3>2.&nbsp;SYNTAX</h3>

<p>
<a href="#mime_initialize">mime::initialize</a>
returns a token.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    ?-canonical type/subtype
        ?-param    {key value}?...
        ?-encoding value?
        ?-header   {key value}?... ?
    (-file name | -string value | -parts {token1 ... tokenN})
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_finalize">mime::finalize</a> returns
an empty string.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    token ?-subordinates "all" | "dynamic" | "none"?
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_getproperty">mime::getproperty</a>
returns a string or a list of strings.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    token ?property | -names?
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_getheader">mime::getheader</a> returns
a list of strings.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    token ?key | -names?
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_setheader">mime::setheader</a> returns
a list of strings.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    token key value ?-mode "write" | "append" | "delete"?
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_getbody">mime::getbody</a> returns a string.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    ?-command callback ?-blocksize octets? ?
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_copymessage">mime::copymessage</a>
returns an empty string.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    token channel
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_buildmessage">mime::buildmessage</a>
returns a string.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    token
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#smtp_sendmessage">smtp::sendmessage</a>
returns a list.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    token ?-servers list? ?-ports list?
          ?-queue boolean?     ?-atleastone boolean?
          ?-originator string? ?-recipients string?
          ?-header {key value}?...
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_parseaddress">mime::parseaddress</a>
returns a list of serialized arrays.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    string
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_parsedatetime">mime::parsedatetime</a>
returns a string.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    [string | -now] property
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_mapencoding">mime::mapencoding</a>
returns a string.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    encoding_name
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
<a href="#mime_reversemapencoding">mime::reversemapencoding</a>
returns a string.
Parameters:
</p>
</font><pre>    mime_charset
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

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<h3>3.&nbsp;SEMANTICS</h3>

<h4><a name="mime_initialize">3.1</a>&nbsp;mime::initialize</h4>

<p>
mime::initialize creates a MIME part:

<ul class="text">

<li>
If the -canonical option is present,
then the body is in canonical (raw) form and is found by consulting
either the -file, -string, or -part option.
<br>
<br>

In addition,
both the -param and -header options may occur zero or more times to
specify "Content-Type" parameters (e.g., "charset")
and header keyword/values (e.g., "Content-Disposition"),
respectively.
<br>
<br>

Also, -encoding, if present,
specifies the "Content-Transfer-Encoding" when copying the body.
</li>

<li>
If the -canonical option is not present,
then the MIME part contained in either the -file or the -string option
is parsed,
dynamically generating subordinates as appropriate.
</li>

</ul>

</p>

<h4><a name="mime_finalize">3.2</a>&nbsp;mime::finalize</h4>

<p>
mime::finalize destroys a MIME part.
</p>

<p>
If the -subordinates option is present,
it specifies which subordinates should also be destroyed.
The default value is "dynamic".
</p>

<h4><a name="mime_getproperty">3.3</a>&nbsp;mime::getproperty</h4>

<p>
mime::getproperty returns the properties of a MIME part.
</p>

<p>
The properties are:
</p>
</font><pre>
    property    value
    ========    =====
    content     the type/subtype describing the content
    encoding    the "Content-Transfer-Encoding"
    params      a list of "Content-Type" parameters
    parts       a list of tokens for the part's subordinates
    size        the approximate size of the content (unencoded)
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
The "parts" property is present only if the MIME part has
subordinates.
</p>

<p>
If mime::getproperty is invoked with the name of a specific property,
then the corresponding value is returned;
instead,
if -names is specified,
a list of all properties is returned;
otherwise,
a serialized array of properties and values is returned.
</p>

<h4><a name="mime_getheader">3.4</a>&nbsp;mime::getheader</h4>

<p>
mime::getheader returns the header of a MIME part.
</p>

<p>
A header consists of zero or more key/value pairs.
Each value is a list containing one or more strings.
</p>

<p>
If mime::getheader is invoked with the name of a specific key,
then a list containing the corresponding value(s) is returned;
instead,
if -names is specified,
a list of all keys is returned;
otherwise,
a serialized array of keys and values is returned.
Note that when a key is specified (e.g., "Subject"),
the list returned usually contains exactly one string;
however,
some keys (e.g., "Received") often occur more than once in the header,
accordingly the list returned usually contains more than one string.
</p>

<h4><a name="mime_setheader">3.5</a>&nbsp;mime::setheader</h4>

<p>
mime::setheader writes, appends to, or deletes the value associated
with a key in the header.
</p>

<p>
The value for -mode is one of:

<blockquote class="text"><dl>

<dt>   write:</dt>
<dd>
 the key/value is either created or
overwritten (the default);
</dd>

<dt>   append:</dt>
<dd>
 a new value is appended for the key
(creating it as necessary); or,
</dd>

<dt>   delete:</dt>
<dd>
 all values associated with the key are removed
(the "value" parameter is ignored).
</dd>

</dl></blockquote>

</p>

<p>
Regardless,
mime::setheader returns the previous value associated with the key.
</p>

<h4><a name="mime_getbody">3.6</a>&nbsp;mime::getbody</h4>

<p>
mime::getbody returns the body of a leaf MIME part in canonical form.
</p>

<p>
If the -command option is present,
then it is repeatedly invoked with a fragment of the body as this:
</p>
</font><pre>
    uplevel #0 $callback [list "data" $fragment]
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
(The -blocksize option,
if present,
specifies the maximum size of each fragment passed to the
callback.)
</p>

<p>
When the end of the body is reached,
the callback is invoked as:
</p>
</font><pre>
    uplevel #0 $callback "end"
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
Alternatively,
if an error occurs,
the callback is invoked as:
</p>
</font><pre>
    uplevel #0 $callback [list "error" reason]
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
Regardless,
the return value of the final invocation of the callback is propagated
upwards by mime::getbody.
</p>

<p>
If the -command option is absent,
then the return value of mime::getbody is a string containing the MIME
part's entire body.
</p>

<h4><a name="mime_copymessage">3.7</a>&nbsp;mime::copymessage</h4>

<p>
mime::copymessage copies the MIME part to the specified channel.
</p>

<p>
mime::copymessage operates synchronously,
and uses fileevent to allow asynchronous operations to proceed
independently.
</p>

<h4><a name="mime_buildmessage">3.7</a>&nbsp;mime::buildmessage</h4>

<p>
mime::buildmessage returns the MIME part as a string.  It is similar
to mime::copymessage, only it returns the data as a return string
instead of writing to a channel.
</p>


<h4><a name="smtp_sendmessage">3.8</a>&nbsp;smtp::sendmessage</h4>

<p>
smtp::sendmessage sends a MIME part to an SMTP server.
(Note that this procedure is in the "smtp" package,
not the "mime" package.)
</p>

<p>
The options are:

<blockquote class="text"><dl>

<dt>   -servers:</dt>
<dd>
a list of SMTP servers
(the default is "localhost");
</dd>

<dt>   -ports:</dt>
<dd>
a list of SMTP ports
(the default is 25);
</dd>

<dt>   -queue:</dt>
<dd>
indicates that the SMTP server should be
asked to queue the message for later processing;
</dd>

<dt>   -atleastone:</dt>
<dd>
indicates that the SMTP server must find
at least one recipient acceptable for the message to be sent;
</dd>

<dt>   -originator:</dt>
<dd>
a string containing an 822-style address
specification
(if present the header isn't examined for an originator address);
</dd>

<dt>   -recipients:</dt>
<dd>
a string containing one or more 822-style
address specifications
(if present the header isn't examined for recipient addresses); and,
</dd>

<dt>   -header:</dt>
<dd>
a keyword/value pairing
(may occur zero or more times).
</dd>

</dl></blockquote>

</p>

<p>
If the -originator option is not present,
the originator address is taken from "From" (or "Resent-From");
similarly,
if the -recipients option is not present,
recipient addresses are taken from "To", "cc", and "Bcc" (or
"Resent-To", and so on).
Note that the header key/values supplied by the "-header" option
(not those present in the MIME part)
are consulted.
Regardless,
header key/values are added to the outgoing message as necessary to
ensure that a valid 822-style message is sent.
</p>

<p>
smtp::sendmessage returns a list indicating which recipients were
unacceptable to the SMTP server.
Each element of the list is another list,
containing the address, an SMTP error code, and a textual diagnostic.
Depending on the -atleastone option and the intended recipients,,
a non-empty list may still indicate that the message was accepted by
the server.
</p>

<h4><a name="mime_parseaddress">3.9</a>&nbsp;mime::parseaddress</h4>

<p>
mime::parseaddr takes a string containing one or more 822-style
address specifications and returns a list of serialized arrays,
one element for each address specified in the argument.
</p>

<p>
Each serialized array contains these properties:
</p>
</font><pre>
    property    value
    ========    =====
    address     local@domain
    comment     822-style comment
    domain      the domain part (rhs)
    error       non-empty on a parse error 
    group       this address begins a group
    friendly    user-friendly rendering
    local       the local part (lhs)
    memberP     this address belongs to a group
    phrase      the phrase part
    proper      822-style address specification
    route       822-style route specification (obsolete)
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<p>
Note that one or more of these properties may be empty.
</p>

<h4><a name="mime_parsedatetime">3.10</a>&nbsp;mime::parsedatetime</h4>

<p>
mime::parsedatetime takes a string containing an 822-style
date-time specification and returns the specified property.
</p>

<p>
The list of properties and their ranges are:
</p>
</font><pre>
    property     range
    ========     =====
    hour         0 .. 23
    lmonth       January, February, ..., December
    lweekday     Sunday, Monday, ... Saturday
    mday         1 .. 31
    min          0 .. 59
    mon          1 .. 12
    month        Jan, Feb, ..., Dec
    proper       822-style date-time specification
    rclock       elapsed seconds between then and now
    sec          0 .. 59
    wday         0 .. 6 (Sun .. Mon)
    weekday      Sun, Mon, ..., Sat
    yday         1 .. 366
    year         1900 ...
    zone         -720 .. 720 (minutes east of GMT)
</pre><font face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" size="2">

<h4><a name="mime_mapencoding">3.10</a>&nbsp;mime::mapencoding</h4>

<p>
mime::mapencoding takes a string containing the name of a
tcl encoding (see [encoding names]) and returns the MIME
charset name for that encoding (or "" if the charset name
is unknown).
</p>

<h4><a name="mime_reversemapencoding">3.10</a>&nbsp;mime::reversemapencoding</h4>

<p>
mime::reversemapencoding takes a string containing the name of a
MIME charset tcl encoding (see [encoding names]) and returns the MIME
charset name for that encoding (or "" if no known tcl encoding maps to
the mime charset type).
</p>

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<h3>4.&nbsp;EXAMPLES</h3>
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package require mime 1.0
package require smtp 1.0


# create an image

set imageT [mime::initialize -canonical image/gif \
                             -file logo.gif]


# parse a message

set messageT [mime::initialize -file example.msg]


# recursively traverse a message looking for primary recipients

proc traverse {token} {
    set result ""

# depth-first search
    if {![catch { mime::getproperty $token parts } parts]} {
        foreach part $parts {
            set result [concat $result [traverse $part]]
        }
    }

# one value for each line occuring in the header
    foreach value [mime::getheader $token To] {
        foreach addr [mime::parseaddress $value] {
            catch { unset aprops }
            array set aprops $addr
            lappend result $aprops(address)
        }
    }

    return $result
}


# create a multipart containing both, and a timestamp

set multiT [mime::initialize -canonical multipart/mixed
                             -parts [list $imageT $messageT]]




# send it to some friends

smtp::sendmessage $multiT \
      -header [list From "Marshall Rose &lt;mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>"] \
      -header [list To "Andreas Kupries &lt;a.kupries@westend.com>"] \
      -header [list cc "dnew@messagemedia.com (Darren New)"] \
      -header [list Subject "test message..."]


# clean everything up

mime::finalize $multiT -subordinates all
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<h3>
References</h3>
<table width="99%" border="0">
<tr><td class="author-text" valign="top"><b><a name="RFC2045">[1]</a></b></td>
<td class="author-text"><a href="mailto:ned@innosoft.com">Freed, N.</a> and <a href="mailto:nsb@messagemedia.com">N.S. Borenstein</a>, "<a href="http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc2045.txt">Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies</a>", RFC 2045, November 1996.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="author-text" valign="top"><b><a name="RFC2046">[2]</a></b></td>
<td class="author-text"><a href="mailto:ned@innosoft.com">Freed, N.</a> and <a href="mailto:nsb@messagemedia.com">N.S. Borenstein</a>, "<a href="http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc2046.txt">Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
Part Two: Media Types</a>", RFC 2046, November 1995.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="author-text" valign="top"><b><a name="RFC822">[3]</a></b></td>
<td class="author-text"><a href="mailto:DCrocker@UDel-Relay">Crocker, D.</a>, "<a href="http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc822.txt">Standard for the format of ARPA Internet Text Messages</a>", RFC 822, STD 11, August 1982.</td></tr>
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<h3>Author's Address</h3>
<table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="author-text">Marshall T. Rose</td></tr>
<tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="author-text">Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="author-text">POB 255268</td></tr>
<tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="author-text">Sacramento, CA  95865-5268</td></tr>
<tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="author-text">US</td></tr>
<tr><td class="author" align="right">Phone:&nbsp;</td>
<td class="author-text">+1 916 483 8878</td></tr>
<tr><td class="author" align="right">Fax:&nbsp;</td>
<td class="author-text">+1 916 483 8848</td></tr>
<tr><td class="author" align="right">EMail:&nbsp;</td>
<td class="author-text"><a href="mailto:mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us">mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us</a></td></tr>
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<h3>Appendix A.&nbsp;TODO List</h3>

<p>

<blockquote class="text"><dl>

<dt>mime::initialize</dt>
<dd>

<ul class="text">

<li>
well-defined errorCode values
</li>

<li>
catch nested errors when processing a multipart
</li>

</ul>

</dd>

</dl></blockquote>

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<h3>Appendix B.&nbsp;Acknowledgements</h3>

<p>
This package is influenced by the safe-tcl package
(Borenstein and Rose, circa 1993),
and also by <a href="mailto:dnew@messagemedia.com">Darren New</a>'s
unpublished package of 1999.
</p>

<p>
This package makes use of 
<a href="mailto:a.kupries@westend.com">Andreas Kupries</a>'s
excellent Trf package.
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