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<h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>
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Mailparse is an extension for parsing and working with email messages.
It can deal with <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822" class="link external">» RFC 822</a> and <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045" class="link external">» RFC 2045</a> (<em>MIME</em>) compliant
messages.
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Mailparse is stream based, which means that it does not keep in-memory
copies of the files it processes - so it is very resource efficient when
dealing with large messages.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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Mailparse requires the <a href="book.mbstring.html" class="link">mbstring</a>
extension, and mbstring must be loaded before mailparse.
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This extension has been moved to the
<a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> repository and is no longer bundled with
PHP as of PHP 4.2.0.
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