Decision Workspace
emailmessage vs mml-lib vs mailrs-mime
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
39
emailmessage
growingv0.2.2
Email Message library for Rust
59
mml-lib
stablev1.1.2
Rust implementation of the Emacs MIME message Meta Language (MML)
55
mailrs-mime
experimentalv1.0.3
RFC 2045/2046 MIME body parser. Walks the multipart tree, decodes Content-Transfer-Encoding (base64, quoted-printable, 7bit, 8bit, binary), exposes text/HTML extraction + find-by-content-type + attachment iteration. Layered on mailrs-rfc5322 (headers) + mailrs-rfc2231 (parameters) + mailrs-rfc2047 (encoded-words).
Core Metrics
| emailmessage | mml-lib | mailrs-mime | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 39 | 59 | 55 |
| Total Downloads | 26.6K | 69.6K | 64 |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 3.9K | 0 |
| Dependents | 49 | 59 | 0 |
| Releases | 4 | 31 | 4 |
| Last Updated | 2754d ago | 96d ago | 3d ago |
| Age | 8y 1m | 2y 9m | 3d |
Health Breakdown
emailmessage
Maintenance
2
Quality
13
Community
11
Popularity
5
Documentation
8
mml-lib
Maintenance
14
Quality
15
Community
11
Popularity
6
Documentation
13
mailrs-mime
Maintenance
19
Quality
15
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
13
Technical Details
| emailmessage | mml-lib | mailrs-mime | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.2.2 | 1.1.2 | 1.0.3 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
| Dependencies | 15 | 18 | 7 |
| Crate Size | 25KB | 67KB | 25KB |
| Features | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 41.9% | 0.0% |
| Edition | — | 2021 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | — | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •mml-lib leads with a health score of 59/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •⚠ emailmessage has not been updated in over a year.
- •emailmessage is pre-1.0 — API may change.