Thanks to Python’s email module for:¶ ↑
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The idea of separating parsing and serialization from the mail classes themselves.
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A lot of the MIME multipart API.
Thanks to Perl’s MimeTools for:¶ ↑
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Showing me this can all be done in the scripting language (no C extensions necessary).
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Accessing MIME parts via a File like API (thereby allowing them to be stored on disk).
People:¶ ↑
“Yoshinori K. Okuji” <okuji-at-enbug-dot-org>
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Code to parse messages from strings (though since then I did it a much simpler way).
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Numerous other API suggestions and improvements.
Booker Bense <bbense-at-SLAC-dot-Stanford-dot-EDU>
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For prodding me to implement mbox mailbox parsing (and an initial implementation). It took me months, but I did it!