1 Introduction

guile-email is a collection of email utilities implemented in pure guile. It supports parsing MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) compliant email messages as specified in RFC5322, RFC2045, RFC2046, RF2047 and RFC2049.

1.1 Features

• Parse RFC5322 compliant email messages (currently does not support obsolete syntax)
• Parse MIME compliant email messages as specified in RFC2045, RFC2046, RFC2047 and RFC2049
• Parse non-standard Emacs message mode parens style addresses
• Encode and decode Quoted-Printable encoding, Base64 encoding and Q-encoding
• Read emails from the mbox format