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diff --git a/mail/gmime/DESCR b/mail/gmime/DESCR index adedb88cec9..5ffb119a956 100644 --- a/mail/gmime/DESCR +++ b/mail/gmime/DESCR @@ -1,24 +1,15 @@ -GMime is a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the -Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) as defined by the following RFCs: - * 0822: Standard for the Format of Arpa Internet Text Messages - * 1521: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for - Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies - * 1847: Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted - * 1864: The Content-MD5 Header Field (Obsoletes rfc1544) - * 2015: MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) - * 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: - Format of Internet Message Bodies - * 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types - * 2047: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Three: - Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text - * 2048: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: - Registration Procedures - * 2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: - Conformance Criteria and Examples - * 2183: Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: - The Content-Disposition Header Field - * 2184: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character - Sets, Languages, and Continuations - * 2231: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character - Sets, Languages, and Continuations (Obsoletes rfc2184) - * 3156: MIME Security with OpenPGP (Updates rfc2015) +GMime is a C library which may be used for the creation and parsing +of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME), +as defined by numerous IETF specifications. + +GMime features an extremely robust high-performance parser designed +to be able to preserve byte-for-byte information allowing developers +to re-seralize the parsed messages back to a stream exactly as the +parser found them. It also features integrated GnuPG and S/MIME +v3.2 support. + +Built on top of GObject (the object system used by the GNOME +desktop), many developers should find its API design and memory +management very familiar. + +This package contains v2.6 of the gmime API. |