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Operation request: MIME rfc2047

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#538 opened on Apr 9, 2019

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Description

Summary

can you please add email MIME header decoding. see the following for info and examples https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt http://dogmamix.com/MimeHeadersDecoder/

Example

input: From: =?US-ASCII?Q?Keith_Moore?= moore@cs.utk.edu To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Keld_J=F8rn_Simonsen?= keld@dkuug.dk CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Pirard PIRARD@vm1.ulg.ac.be Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SWYgeW91IGNhbiByZWFkIHRoaXMgeW8=?= =?ISO-8859-2?B?dSB1bmRlcnN0YW5kIHRoZSBleGFtcGxlLg==?=

output: From: Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu To: Keld Jørn Simonsen keld@dkuug.dk CC: André Pirard PIRARD@vm1.ulg.ac.be Subject: If you can read this you understand the example.

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Research direction
Implement RFC 2047 decoding: parse encoded words of the form =?charset?encoding?encoded text?=, decode base64 or quoted printable, convert to UTF 8, and replace. See https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt and examples in the issue.
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