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NAME

       mime-tool - a simple program to construct MIME messages with attached files

SYNOPSIS

       mime  [	-dDvV ] [ -S subject ] [ -F from-address ] [ -T to-address ] [ -C carbon-copy address ] [ -P prolog-text ] [ -E epiplogue-text ] [
       -B boundry ] [ -O overall content-type ] { [ -78abiquxopm ] [ -t content-type ] filename }

DESCRIPTION

       The mime program constructs MIME messages with attached files. The user can specify the content type (application/octet-stream,	text/plain
       or a user specified type), content type encoding (7bit, 8bit, binary, base64 and auto-detect), content disposition (attached or inline) and
       the content boundry string.  The user can also specify some mail related options: subject,  from-address,  to-addres,  carbon-copy  addres,
       prolog-text and epilog-text.

       The output of the MIME-tool program can be sent directly to the mail, mailx or sendmail commands (or any other command that accepts RFC-822
       formatted messages).

       NOTE: Specifying 7-bit encoding for an attachment that contains 8-bit data will convert any data bytes whose high-bit is  set  to  question
       marks.

OPTIONS

       -7     7-bit ASCII encoding

       -8     8-bit ASCII encoding

       -a     application/octet-stream content type

       -b     binary encoding

       -d     low detail debugging

       -D     high detail debugging

       -s     write a subpart

       -i     disposition: inline (instead of attachment)

       -q     quoted-printable encoding

       -c content-type
	      explicit content type

       -t     text/plain content type

       -o     omit disposition line

       -u     unknown encoding, auto-detect

       -v     verbose messages

       -V     very verbose messages

       -x     base64 encoding

       -p     copy existing MIME part

       -o     omit content-disposition

       -m     omit content-transfer-encoding

       -n filename
	      override the filename in the disposition header

       -N     don't add a filename parameter in the disposition header

       -0     no-op

EXAMPLES

       Using MIME-tool to write a mail message to a file:

	      mime -S "test message" -F me@foo.net -T someone@somewhere.net file1 > test.msg

       Using MIME-tool with the mail command:

	      mime -S "test message" -F me@foo.net file1 | mail someone@somewhere.net

       Using MIME-tool with the mailx command:

	      mime -S "test message" -F me@foo.net file1 | mailx someone@somewhere.net

       Using MIME-tool with the sendmail command:

	      mime -S "test message" -F me@foo.net file1 | sendmail someone@somewhere.net

VERSION

       This is version 1.5.topal3 from June 2009.

KNOWN BUGS

       Most  of the header values are not properly quoted or folded, so long or complex values for these headers may cause problems. Specifically,
       the from-address, to-address, carbon-copy-address and content-type headers may not be properly quoted or folded.

       For some reason, certain e-mail clients (espcially from a large software company located in Redmond, Washington) don't  seem  to  recognize
       file  attachments  as attachments, but instead displays them as inline attachments.  (maybe this isn't MIME-tool's fault, but I've gotten a
       few e-mails about it, so I'm mentioning it here)

AUTHOR

       mime is written by Jeffrey Dutky <dutky@bellatlantic.net>

       Oscar Esteban spotted an off-by-one error in the base64 encoding function.

       Sergey Lapin spotted a bug in the filename header construction.

       Chris Hemphill noticed that the documentation (this manual page and the README file) didn't include any examples of how to call the program
       with common mail commands.

       Some additional fixes and additions by Phil Brooke to support Topal.

AVAILABILITY

       The original MIME-tool package can be downloaded from my web page at http://members.bellatlantic.net/~dutky

       This modified version is distributed with Topal:

       http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.brooke/topal/

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