P5-email-mime-rfc2047

Jul 20, 2023

Correct handling of non-ASCII MIME headers

This set of modules tries to provide a correct and usable implementation of RFC 2047 “MIME Part Three Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text”

  • As a replacement of ‘text’ tokens, for example in a Subject header
  • As a replacement for a ‘word’ entity within a ‘phrase’, for example, one that precedes an address in a From, To, or Cc header


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