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e8af40ee 1;;; mailheader.el --- mail header parsing, merging, formatting
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3;; Copyright (C) 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
4;; 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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a893064d 6;; Author: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
526baa41 7;; Keywords: tools, mail, news
bd78fa1d 8;; Package: mail-utils
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10;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
11
b1fc2b50 12;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
526baa41 13;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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14;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
15;; (at your option) any later version.
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17;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
18;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
19;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
20;; GNU General Public License for more details.
21
22;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
b1fc2b50 23;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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25;;; Commentary:
26
27;; This package provides an abstraction to RFC822-style messages, used in
cc8d8b6f 28;; mail, news, and some other systems. The simple syntactic rules for such
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29;; headers, such as quoting and line folding, are routinely reimplemented
30;; in many individual packages. This package removes the need for this
31;; redundancy by representing message headers as association lists,
32;; offering functions to extract the set of headers from a message, to
33;; parse individual headers, to merge sets of headers, and to format a set
34;; of headers.
35
36;; The car of each element in the message-header alist is a symbol whose
37;; print name is the name of the header, in all lower-case. The cdr of an
38;; element depends on the operation. After extracting headers from a
51c39cdb 39;; message, it is a string, the value of the header. An extracted set of
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40;; headers may be parsed further, which may turn it into a list, whose car
41;; is the original value and whose subsequent elements depend on the
42;; header. For formatting, it is evaluated to obtain the strings to be
43;; inserted. For merging, one set of headers consists of strings, while
44;; the other set will be evaluated with the symbols in the first set of
45;; headers bound to their respective values.
46
47;;; Code:
48
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49(eval-when-compile
50 (require 'cl))
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52(defun mail-header-extract ()
53 "Extract headers from current buffer after point.
54Returns a header alist, where each element is a cons cell (name . value),
55where NAME is a symbol, and VALUE is the string value of the header having
56that name."
57 (let ((message-headers ()) (top (point))
58 start end)
59 (while (and (setq start (point))
60 (> (skip-chars-forward "^\0- :") 0)
61 (= (following-char) ?:)
62 (setq end (point))
8f09e440 63 (progn (forward-char)
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64 (> (skip-chars-forward " \t") 0)))
65 (let ((header (intern (downcase (buffer-substring start end))))
66 (value (list (buffer-substring
67 (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point))))))
68 (while (progn (forward-char) (> (skip-chars-forward " \t") 0))
69 (push (buffer-substring (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
70 value))
71 (push (if (cdr value)
72 (cons header (mapconcat #'identity (nreverse value) " "))
73 (cons header (car value)))
74 message-headers)))
75 (goto-char top)
76 (nreverse message-headers)))
77
78(defun mail-header-extract-no-properties ()
79 "Extract headers from current buffer after point, without properties.
80Returns a header alist, where each element is a cons cell (name . value),
81where NAME is a symbol, and VALUE is the string value of the header having
82that name."
83 (mapcar
84 (lambda (elt)
85 (set-text-properties 0 (length (cdr elt)) nil (cdr elt))
86 elt)
87 (mail-header-extract)))
88
89(defun mail-header-parse (parsing-rules headers)
90 "Apply PARSING-RULES to HEADERS.
91PARSING-RULES is an alist whose keys are header names (symbols) and whose
92value is a parsing function. The function takes one argument, a string,
93and return a list of values, which will destructively replace the value
94associated with the key in HEADERS, after being prepended with the original
95value."
96 (dolist (rule parsing-rules)
97 (let ((header (assq (car rule) headers)))
98 (when header
99 (if (consp (cdr header))
100 (setf (cddr header) (funcall (cdr rule) (cadr header)))
101 (setf (cdr header)
102 (cons (cdr header) (funcall (cdr rule) (cdr header))))))))
103 headers)
104
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105;; Advertized part of the interface; see mail-header, mail-header-set.
106(defvar headers)
107
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108(defsubst mail-header (header &optional header-alist)
109 "Return the value associated with header HEADER in HEADER-ALIST.
110If the value is a string, it is the original value of the header. If the
111value is a list, its first element is the original value of the header,
8f09e440 112with any subsequent elements being the result of parsing the value.
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113If HEADER-ALIST is nil, the dynamically bound variable `headers' is used."
114 (cdr (assq header (or header-alist headers))))
115
116(defun mail-header-set (header value &optional header-alist)
117 "Set the value associated with header HEADER to VALUE in HEADER-ALIST.
118HEADER-ALIST defaults to the dynamically bound variable `headers' if nil.
119See `mail-header' for the semantics of VALUE."
120 (let* ((alist (or header-alist headers))
121 (entry (assq header alist)))
122 (if entry
123 (setf (cdr entry) value)
124 (nconc alist (list (cons header value)))))
125 value)
126
127(defsetf mail-header (header &optional header-alist) (value)
128 `(mail-header-set ,header ,value ,header-alist))
129
130(defun mail-header-merge (merge-rules headers)
131 "Return a new header alist with MERGE-RULES applied to HEADERS.
132MERGE-RULES is an alist whose keys are header names (symbols) and whose
133values are forms to evaluate, the results of which are the new headers. It
134should be a string or a list of string. The first element may be nil to
135denote that the formatting functions must use the remaining elements, or
136skip the header altogether if there are no other elements.
137 The macro `mail-header' can be used to access headers in HEADERS."
138 (mapcar
139 (lambda (rule)
140 (cons (car rule) (eval (cdr rule))))
141 merge-rules))
142
143(defvar mail-header-format-function
144 (lambda (header value)
145 "Function to format headers without a specified formatting function."
146 (insert (capitalize (symbol-name header))
147 ": "
148 (if (consp value) (car value) value)
15575807 149 "\n")))
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151(defun mail-header-format (format-rules headers)
152 "Use FORMAT-RULES to format HEADERS and insert into current buffer.
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153HEADERS should be an alist of the form (HEADER . VALUE),
154where HEADER is a header field name (a symbol or a string),
155and VALUE is the contents for that header field.
156
157FORMAT-RULES is an alist of elements (HEADER . FUNCTION) Here HEADER
158is a header field name (a symbol), and FUNCTION is how to format that
159header field, if it appears in HEADERS. Each FUNCTION should take two
160arguments: the header symbol, and the value of that header. The value
161returned by FUNCTION is inserted in the buffer unless it is nil.
162
163If the function for a header field is nil, or if no function is
164specified for a particular header field, the default action is to
165insert the value of the header, unless it is nil.
166
526baa41 167The headers are inserted in the order of the FORMAT-RULES.
8f09e440 168A key of t in FORMAT-RULES represents any otherwise unmentioned headers.
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169A key of nil has as its value a list of defaulted headers to ignore."
170 (let ((ignore (append (cdr (assq nil format-rules))
171 (mapcar #'car format-rules))))
172 (dolist (rule format-rules)
173 (let* ((header (car rule))
174 (value (mail-header header)))
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175 (if (stringp header)
176 (setq header (intern header)))
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177 (cond ((null header) 'ignore)
178 ((eq header t)
179 (dolist (defaulted headers)
180 (unless (memq (car defaulted) ignore)
181 (let* ((header (car defaulted))
182 (value (cdr defaulted)))
183 (if (cdr rule)
184 (funcall (cdr rule) header value)
68cf9ca1 185 (funcall mail-header-format-function header value))))))
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186 (value
187 (if (cdr rule)
188 (funcall (cdr rule) header value)
68cf9ca1 189 (funcall mail-header-format-function header value))))))
15575807 190 (insert "\n")))
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191
192(provide 'mailheader)
193
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