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This file documents MAILUTILS,  library API.

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Introduction
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GNU MAILUTILS offers a general purpose library whose aim is to provide a rich set of functions for accessing different mailbox formats and mailers.

References
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For more information on,

  * SMTP

       - RFC 2821: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

       - RFC 2368: The mailto URL scheme

  * POP3

       - RFC 1939: Post Office Protocol - Version 3

       - RFC 1734: POP3 AUTHentication command

       - RFC 1957: Some Observations on Implementations of the Post Office Protocol (POP3)

       - RFC 2449: POP3 Extension Mechanism

       - RFC 2384: POP URL Scheme

  * IMAP4

       - RFC 2060: INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1

       - RFC 2088: IMAP4 non-synchronizing literals

       - RFC 2193: IMAP4 Mailbox Referrals

       - RFC 2221: IMAP4 Login Referrals

       - RFC 2342: IMAP4 Namespace

       - RFC 2192: IMAP URL Scheme

       - RFC 1731: IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms

       - RFC 2245: Anonymous SASL Mechanism

  * message formats

       - RFC 2822: Internet Message Format

       - RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies

       - RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types

       - RFC 2047: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text

       - RFC 2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

       - RFC 2111: Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators

  * miscellaneous related topics

       - RFC 3028: Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language

       - RFC 2298: An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications

       - RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)

       - Internet Email Protocols: A Developer's Guide, by Kevin Johnson

Concrete API
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Framework
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Programs
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Reporting Bugs
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Email bug reports to bug-mailutils@gnu.org. Be sure to include the word ``mailutils'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field.

Acknowledgement
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In no particular order, Jakob Kaivo jkaivo@ndn.net, Jeff Bailey jbailey@gnu.org, Sean Perry shaleh@debian.org, Thomas Fletcher thomasf@qnx.com, Dave Inglis dinglis@qnx.com, Brian Edmond briane@qnx.com, Sam Roberts sroberts@uniserve.com, Sergey Poznyakoff gray@Mirddin.farlep.net, François Pinard  pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA.

Concept Index
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This is a general index of all issues discussed in this manual

Index
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This is an alphabetical list of all MAILUTILS functions.