diff --git a/Lib/commands.py b/Lib/commands.py
index 5e4a9cf..d8c6e65 100644
--- a/Lib/commands.py
+++ b/Lib/commands.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 		return ' \'' + x + '\''
 	s = ' "'
 	for c in x:
-		if c in '\\$"':
+		if c in '\\$"`':
 			s = s + '\\'
 		s = s + c
 	s = s + '"'
diff --git a/Lib/mimetools.py b/Lib/mimetools.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79c6fb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/mimetools.py
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+# Various tools used by MIME-reading or MIME-writing programs.
+
+
+import string
+import rfc822
+
+
+# A derived class of rfc822.Message that knows about MIME headers and
+# contains some hooks for decoding encoded and multipart messages.
+
+class Message(rfc822.Message):
+
+	def init(self, fp):
+		self = rfc822.Message.init(self, fp)
+		self.encodingheader = \
+			self.getheader('content-transfer-encoding')
+		self.typeheader = \
+			self.getheader('content-type')
+		self.parsetype()
+		self.parseplist()
+		return self
+
+	def parsetype(self):
+		str = self.typeheader
+		if str == None:
+			str = 'text/plain'
+		if ';' in str:
+			i = string.index(str, ';')
+			self.plisttext = str[i:]
+			str = str[:i]
+		else:
+			self.plisttext = ''
+		fields = string.splitfields(str, '/')
+		for i in range(len(fields)):
+			fields[i] = string.lower(string.strip(fields[i]))
+		self.type = string.joinfields(fields, '/')
+		self.maintype = fields[0]
+		self.subtype = string.joinfields(fields[1:], '/')
+
+	def parseplist(self):
+		str = self.plisttext
+		self.plist = []
+		while str[:1] == ';':
+			str = str[1:]
+			if ';' in str:
+				# XXX Should parse quotes!
+				end = string.index(str, ';')
+			else:
+				end = len(str)
+			f = str[:end]
+			if '=' in f:
+				i = string.index(f, '=')
+				f = string.lower(string.strip(f[:i])) + \
+					'=' + string.strip(f[i+1:])
+			self.plist.append(string.strip(f))
+
+	def getplist(self):
+		return self.plist
+
+	def getparam(self, name):
+		name = string.lower(name) + '='
+		n = len(name)
+		for p in self.plist:
+			if p[:n] == name:
+				return rfc822.unquote(p[n:])
+		return None
+
+	def getencoding(self):
+		if self.encodingheader == None:
+			return '7bit'
+		return self.encodingheader
+
+	def gettype(self):
+		return self.type
+
+	def getmaintype(self):
+		return self.maintype
+
+	def getsubtype(self):
+		return self.subtype
+
+
+
+
+# Utility functions
+# -----------------
+
+
+# Return a random string usable as a multipart boundary.
+# The method used is so that it is *very* unlikely that the same
+# string of characters will every occur again in the Universe,
+# so the caller needn't check the data it is packing for the
+# occurrence of the boundary.
+#
+# The boundary contains dots so you have to quote it in the header.
+
+_prefix = None
+
+def choose_boundary():
+	global _generation, _prefix, _timestamp
+	import time
+	import rand
+	if _prefix == None:
+		import socket
+		import os
+		hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
+		uid = `os.getuid()`
+		pid = `os.getpid()`
+		seed = `rand.rand()`
+		_prefix = hostid + '.' + uid + '.' + pid
+	timestamp = `time.time()`
+	seed = `rand.rand()`
+	return _prefix + '.' + timestamp + '.' + seed
diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63f2fb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/rfc822.py
@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+# RFC-822 message manipulation class.
+#
+# XXX This is only a very rough sketch of a full RFC-822 parser;
+# additional methods are needed to parse addresses and dates, and to
+# tokenize lines according to various other syntax rules.
+#
+# Directions for use:
+#
+# To create a Message object: first open a file, e.g.:
+#   fp = open(file, 'r')
+# (or use any other legal way of getting an open file object, e.g. use
+# sys.stdin or call os.popen()).
+# Then pass the open file object to the init() method of Message:
+#   m = Message().init(fp)
+#
+# To get the text of a particular header there are several methods:
+#   str = m.getheader(name)
+#   str = m.getrawheader(name)
+# where name is the name of the header, e.g. 'Subject'.
+# The difference is that getheader() strips the leading and trailing
+# whitespace, while getrawheader() doesn't.  Both functions retain
+# embedded whitespace (including newlines) exactly as they are
+# specified in the header, and leave the case of the text unchanged.
+#
+# See the class definition for lower level access methods.
+#
+# There are also some utility functions here.
+
+
+import regex
+import string
+
+
+class Message:
+
+	# Initialize the class instance and read the headers.
+	
+	def init(self, fp):
+		self.fp = fp
+		#
+		try:
+			self.startofheaders = self.fp.tell()
+		except IOError:
+			self.startofheaders = None
+		#
+		self.readheaders()
+		#
+		try:
+			self.startofbody = self.fp.tell()
+		except IOError:
+			self.startofbody = None
+		#
+		return self
+
+
+	# Rewind the file to the start of the body (if seekable).
+
+	def rewindbody(self):
+		self.fp.seek(self.startofbody)
+
+
+	# Read header lines up to the entirely blank line that
+	# terminates them.  The (normally blank) line that ends the
+	# headers is skipped, but not included in the returned list.
+	# If a non-header line ends the headers, (which is an error),
+	# an attempt is made to backspace over it; it is never
+	# included in the returned list.
+	#
+	# The variable self.status is set to the empty string if all
+	# went well, otherwise it is an error message.
+	# The variable self.headers is a completely uninterpreted list
+	# of lines contained in the header (so printing them will
+	# reproduce the header exactly as it appears in the file).
+
+	def readheaders(self):
+		self.headers = list = []
+		self.status = ''
+		headerseen = 0
+		while 1:
+			line = self.fp.readline()
+			if not line:
+				self.status = 'EOF in headers'
+				break
+			if self.islast(line):
+				break
+			elif headerseen and line[0] in ' \t':
+				# It's a continuation line.
+				list.append(line)
+			elif regex.match('^[!-9;-~]+:', line):
+				# It's a header line.
+				list.append(line)
+				headerseen = 1
+			else:
+				# It's not a header line; stop here.
+				if not headerseen:
+					self.status = 'No headers'
+				else:
+					self.status = 'Bad header'
+				# Try to undo the read.
+				try:
+					self.fp.seek(-len(line), 1)
+				except IOError:
+					self.status = \
+						self.status + '; bad seek'
+				break
+
+
+	# Method to determine whether a line is a legal end of
+	# RFC-822 headers.  You may override this method if your
+	# application wants to bend the rules, e.g. to accept lines
+	# ending in '\r\n', to strip trailing whitespace, or to
+	# recognise MH template separators ('--------'). 
+
+	def islast(self, line):
+		return line == '\n'
+
+
+	# Look through the list of headers and find all lines matching
+	# a given header name (and their continuation lines).
+	# A list of the lines is returned, without interpretation.
+	# If the header does not occur, an empty list is returned.
+	# If the header occurs multiple times, all occurrences are
+	# returned.  Case is not important in the header name.
+
+	def getallmatchingheaders(self, name):
+		name = string.lower(name) + ':'
+		n = len(name)
+		list = []
+		hit = 0
+		for line in self.headers:
+			if string.lower(line[:n]) == name:
+				hit = 1
+			elif line[:1] not in string.whitespace:
+				hit = 0
+			if hit:
+				list.append(line)
+		return list
+
+
+	# Similar, but return only the first matching header (and its
+	# continuation lines).
+
+	def getfirstmatchingheader(self, name):
+		name = string.lower(name) + ':'
+		n = len(name)
+		list = []
+		hit = 0
+		for line in self.headers:
+			if string.lower(line[:n]) == name:
+				hit = 1
+			elif line[:1] not in string.whitespace:
+				if hit:
+					break
+			if hit:
+				list.append(line)
+		return list
+
+
+	# A higher-level interface to getfirstmatchingheader().
+	# Return a string containing the literal text of the header
+	# but with the keyword stripped.  All leading, trailing and
+	# embedded whitespace is kept in the string, however.
+	# Return None if the header does not occur.
+
+	def getrawheader(self, name):
+		list = self.getfirstmatchingheader(name)
+		if not list:
+			return None
+		list[0] = list[0][len(name) + 1:]
+		return string.joinfields(list, '')
+
+
+	# Going one step further: also strip leading and trailing
+	# whitespace.
+
+	def getheader(self, name):
+		text = self.getrawheader(name)
+		if text == None:
+			return None
+		return string.strip(text)
+
+
+	# XXX The next step would be to define self.getaddr(name)
+	# and self.getaddrlist(name) which would parse a header
+	# consisting of a single mail address and a number of mail
+	# addresses, respectively.  Lower level functions would be
+	# parseaddr(string) and parseaddrlist(string).
+
+	# XXX Similar, there would be a function self.getdate(name) to
+	# return a date in canonical form (perhaps a number compatible
+	# to time.time()) and a function parsedate(string).
+
+	# XXX The inverses of the parse functions may also be useful.
+
+
+
+
+# Utility functions
+# -----------------
+
+
+# Remove quotes from a string.
+# XXX Should fix this to be really conformant.
+
+def unquote(str):
+	if len(str) > 1:
+		if str[0] == '"' and str[-1:] == '"':
+			return str[1:-1]
+		if str[0] == '<' and str[-1:] == '>':
+			return str[1:-1]
+	return str