Emil

Mail format/encoding converter

Emil is a filter for converting Internet Messages. It supports three basic formats MIME, SUN Mailtool and RFC822. It can be used with sendmail, as a loopback mailer, as a prefilter or backend program with a mail client program, or as a plain filter. Conversion can be configured by a configuration file, emil.cf, using sender, recipient and recipient host as input parameters or by command line arguments.

Emil is able to

• convert the format, headers and structure, between messages of type MIME, Sun Mailtool and RFC822.
• convert the encoding of binary data between Base64, BinHex and Uuencode.
• convert the encoding of text to and from the MIME encoding Quoted-Printable.
• convert character set of text between the character sets made available by Keld J. Simonsens strncnv package.
• do one-way conversions of 8bit text to the Swedish national variant of ISO-646 or to US-ASCII.
• convert to and from RFC1522 format headers.