separate MIME parsing

[Tom Anderson]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 19:05, C. Fischer wrote:
> i would like to compare "bogofilter" to "ifile".  the latter doesn't have MIME
> parsing.  the customary MIME parsers available for scripting do not easily fit
> into an environment where the actual results aren't needed and wouldn't need
> to get saved somewhere.
> 
> could "bogofilter"s MIME parsing be split out into a separate library for a
> task like "just get the text portion as a token stream"?
> 
> which packages would you recommend?  the ones i looked at, eg. "reformime"
> from "maildrop" or "munpack", all want to save to files instead of letting me
> select text/* parts to output on stdout.

Clemens,

Use Perl.  See http://orderamidchaos.com/bogofilter/bfproxy as an
example.

Tom