Thanks to Python's email module for:¶ ↑

• The idea of separating parsing and serialization from the mail classes themselves.

• A lot of the MIME multipart API.

Thanks to Perl's MimeTools for:¶ ↑

• Showing me this can all be done in the scripting language (no C extensions necessary).

• 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>

• Code to parse messages from strings (though since then I did it a much simpler way).

• Numerous other API suggestions and improvements.

Booker Bense <bbense-at-SLAC-dot-Stanford-dot-EDU>

• For prodding me to implement mbox mailbox parsing (and an initial implementation). It took me months, but I did it!