gmime ☆

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Description:
MIME mail utilities

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: email mime library c-library email-processing

Install: brew install gmime

About:
GMime is a powerful C/C++ library designed for creating, parsing, and processing MIME email messages. It provides robust support for various email standards, including RFC 2822 and RFC 2047, making it ideal for developing mail user agents or mail transport agents. Its main value proposition is offering a reliable, high-performance foundation for handling complex email structures and attachments programmatically.

Key Features:

Comprehensive MIME parsing and generation
Support for S/MIME and PGP/GPG cryptographic operations
Character set conversion and encoding handling
Low-level stream-based architecture for memory efficiency

Use Cases:

Building custom mail client applications
Developing mail transport agents (MTAs) or filters
Parsing and analyzing email archives for data extraction

Alternatives:

libetpan – A more comprehensive library that includes network protocols (IMAP/POP3), whereas GMime focuses strictly on MIME message handling.
Apache James Mime4J – Java-based alternative for MIME parsing, while GMime is native to C/C++ environments.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 14, 2025 9:19pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	dfe950da
Sep 12, 2024 7:11am		0	VERSION_BUMP	3a6f1c21