Sample EML email files for testing parsers and clients, free and CC0
eml/plain-text.eml is the message every parser must read: one text/plain part, declared
UTF-8 and quoted-printable, with every line ending in CR LF, so a parser that splits on \n
alone leaves a stray \r on each line, and one that skips quoted-printable decoding shows an
= wherever a line was wrapped.
eml/with-attachments.eml is multipart/mixed with a text part and two attachments, a PDF and
a PNG, each base64-encoded, so a parser that takes the message for one body finds only the text,
and one that skips base64 writes files that nothing opens. The attachments are the bytes of
pdf/minimal.pdf, 586 bytes, and png/100x100.png, 1,387 bytes, which are published too, so an
extractor can be checked by comparing what it writes with those two fixtures.
| File | Size | Properties | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
plain-text.eml
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1.5 KB (1,531 bytes) | A single text/plain message: the simplest thing a mail parser has to read, with a fixed date and Message-ID.
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with-attachments.eml
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4.1 KB (4,089 bytes) | A message carrying two published fixtures as attachments, a PDF and a PNG, read from the bytes that were published.
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Every EML file in one command, each checked against its hash: npx loremfile get --format eml, or loremfile get --format eml after pip install loremfile.
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