MIMEDEFANG-UTIL(1)

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version 3.7.1 · 12 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 MIMEDEFANG-UTIL 💖

okay bestie, welcome to mimedefang-util — the utility script for message structure debugging, straight out of the MIMEDefang Documentation. she's a little debug sidekick and she eats mail messages for breakfast 🍓

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

# Print a "pretty" version of an input message
mimedefang-util --prettyprint < input.msg

# Print the message structure
mimedefang-util --structure < input.msg

# Parse and re-MIME the message
mimedefang-util --dump < input.msg

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically this script is a lil bundle of debug tools that used to live inside mimedefang.pl before they got their own glow-up and moved out. now they're here, living their main character era. no cap 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --prettyprint — reads a mail message from standard input and reformats it all "pretty" style on standard output. every text/* part gets printed directly (yes, the actual content, bestie), and the non-text parts just get described — their content stays private, we don't peek 🙈
  • --structure — reads a mail message from standard input and prints out a description of the MIME tree to standard output. it's giving family tree but for MIME parts 🌳
  • --dump — reads a mail message from standard input, parses it, and dumps the parsed message right back out again to standard output. glow-up and re-release, iconic ✨
  • --data-dump — same vibe as --dump, except it dumps the parsed message back out to standard output using Data::Dumper. yes, the whole structure, fully exposed 🔥
  • --help — this help. a lil summary, a lil snack 🫶
  • --man — full manpage. the whole encyclopedia, go off 👑

Copyright (C) 2010 Roaring Penguin Software Inc.

This program may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2. periodt 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was mimedefang-util from version 3.7.1, dated 2026-07-20. slay, go debug some messages, ily 🦋💖

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