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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