rustyknife

Email parsing library with a focus on reliably handling malformed data

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Features:

• Python module
• Email header parsing
• ESMTP command parsing
• Unit testing with a high coverage
• Supports internationalized email headers through RFC 2047 and RFC 2231 decoding
• Used to parse the content of millions of emails every day
• SMTPUTF8 support
• UTF-8 Internationalized Email Headers support

Roadmap:

• Decoding of all common ESMTP extensions
• Support more email content syntax

Examples

Email header decoding

use rustyknife::behaviour::Intl;
use rustyknife::types::{DomainPart, DotAtom, Mailbox};
use rustyknife::rfc5322::{Address, Group, Mailbox as IMFMailbox};
use rustyknife::rfc5322::from;

let (rem, parsed) = from::<Intl>(b"  A Group(Some people)\r
 :Chris Jones <c@(Chris's host.)public.example>,\r
 [email protected],\r
 John <[email protected]> (my dear friend); (the end of the group)\r\n").unwrap();

// `rem` contains the unparsed remainder.
assert!(rem.is_empty());
assert_eq!(parsed, [Address::Group(Group{
       dname: "A Group".into(),
       members: vec![
           IMFMailbox { dname: Some("Chris Jones".into()),
                        address: Mailbox::from_imf(b"[email protected]").unwrap() },
           IMFMailbox { dname: None,
                        address: Mailbox::from_imf(b"[email protected]").unwrap() },
           IMFMailbox { dname: Some("John".into()),
                        address: Mailbox::from_imf(b"[email protected]").unwrap() }
       ]
   })]);

ESMTP command parsing

use rustyknife::behaviour::Intl;
use rustyknife::types::{Mailbox, QuotedString, Domain};
use rustyknife::rfc5321::{mail_command, Path, ReversePath, Param};

let (_, (path, params)) = mail_command::<Intl>(b"MAIL FROM:<\"mr bob\"@example.com> RET=FULL ENVID=abc123\r\n").unwrap();
assert_eq!(path, ReversePath::Path(
           Path(Mailbox(QuotedString::from_smtp(b"\"mr bob\"").unwrap().into(),
                        Domain::from_smtp(b"example.com").unwrap().into()),
           vec![])));
assert_eq!(params, [Param::new("RET", Some("FULL")).unwrap(),
                    Param::new("ENVID", Some("abc123")).unwrap()]);

RFC 2047 encoded word decoding

use rustyknife::rfc2047::encoded_word;
let (_, decoded) = encoded_word(b"=?x-sjis?B?lEWWQI7Kg4GM9ZTygs6CtSiPzik=?=").unwrap();
assert_eq!(decoded, "忍法写メ光飛ばし(笑)");