Re: Re: email and MIME?

thank you for the replies

I guess thats a 'no' on the existing scripts, I'm a little surprised there isn't already some perl module to deal with these things a little more intelligently..

the problem is, email includes some fun surprises like nested messages (with full headers) that most existing email readers are smart enough to understand, and process/display correctly. This isn't really a big deal, since we're not dealing with something very complicated here.. but this is a personal project, so I was hoping there was something already out there..

thanks again

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Re: Re: Re: email and MIME? by projekt21 (Friar) on Sep 26, 2001 at 11:46 UTC
Don't be that pessimistic. The MIME-Tools and the above sub do a great job for me separating text and non-text MIME components. As long as the mailer that sent the mail has ever heard about the relevant RFCs it is easy to handle. If you don't believe, have a look at this webmailer (in German, but guessable) using the above sub. For the fun surprises, notice the recursive call of that sub. alex pleiner <alex@zeitform.de> zeitform Internet Dienste	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: email and MIME?
by projekt21 (Friar) on Sep 26, 2001 at 11:46 UTC

Don't be that pessimistic. The MIME-Tools and the above sub do a great job for me separating text and non-text MIME components. As long as the mailer that sent the mail has ever heard about the relevant RFCs it is easy to handle.

If you don't believe, have a look at this webmailer (in German, but guessable) using the above sub.

For the fun surprises, notice the recursive call of that sub.

alex pleiner <alex@zeitform.de>
zeitform Internet Dienste

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