# Mailparse

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Mailparse is an extension for parsing and working with email messages. It can deal with RFC 822 and RFC 2045 (`MIME`) compliant messages.

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.

Mailparse requires the mbstring extension, and mbstring must be loaded before mailparse.

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&reference.mailparse.setup; &reference.mailparse.constants; &reference.mailparse.reference;