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+=head1 NAME
+
+SMIME_write_PKCS7 - convert PKCS#7 structure to S/MIME format.
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ #include <openssl/pkcs7.h>
+
+ int SMIME_write_PKCS7(BIO *out, PKCS7 *p7, BIO *data, int flags);
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+SMIME_write_PKCS7() adds the appropriate MIME headers to a PKCS#7
+structure to produce an S/MIME message.
+
+B<out> is the BIO to write the data to. B<p7> is the appropriate B<PKCS7>
+structure. If streaming is enabled then the content must be supplied in the
+B<data> argument. B<flags> is an optional set of flags.
+
+=head1 NOTES
+
+The following flags can be passed in the B<flags> parameter.
+
+If B<PKCS7_DETACHED> is set then cleartext signing will be used,
+this option only makes sense for signedData where B<PKCS7_DETACHED>
+is also set when PKCS7_sign() is also called.
+
+If the B<PKCS7_TEXT> flag is set MIME headers for type B<text/plain>
+are added to the content, this only makes sense if B<PKCS7_DETACHED>
+is also set.
+
+If the B<PKCS7_STREAM> flag is set streaming is performed. This flag should
+only be set if B<PKCS7_STREAM> was also set in the previous call to
+PKCS7_sign() or B<PKCS7_encrypt()>.
+
+If cleartext signing is being used and B<PKCS7_STREAM> not set then
+the data must be read twice: once to compute the signature in PKCS7_sign()
+and once to output the S/MIME message.
+
+If streaming is performed the content is output in BER format using indefinite
+length constructuted encoding except in the case of signed data with detached
+content where the content is absent and DER format is used.
+
+=head1 BUGS
+
+SMIME_write_PKCS7() always base64 encodes PKCS#7 structures, there
+should be an option to disable this.
+
+=head1 RETURN VALUES
+
+SMIME_write_PKCS7() returns 1 for success or 0 for failure.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>, L<PKCS7_sign(3)|PKCS7_sign(3)>,
+L<PKCS7_verify(3)|PKCS7_verify(3)>, L<PKCS7_encrypt(3)|PKCS7_encrypt(3)>
+L<PKCS7_decrypt(3)|PKCS7_decrypt(3)>
+
+=head1 HISTORY
+
+SMIME_write_PKCS7() was added to OpenSSL 0.9.5
+
+=cut