After reading about Microsoft's Email Security patch for Outlook, I'm fed up with it.

Do you know what they did? A list of file extensions, including various scripting things that are the mechanism of most of these worms, and the venerable *.exe, are deemed "unsafe".

An unsafe file cannot be read. Period. It's not deleted, but there is no way to access it! That's nuts. It is not configurable in any way, nor is the patch removable.

I think the real fix is to stop using Outlook for mail! Little things, like clearly showing the complete file name of an attachment rather than a cute picture and a truncated name that's short enough to fit under it, would prevent accidently launching a worm when you thought you were opening a photo.

Anyway, it only takes maybe 20 lines to make a servicable email client in Perl, using some of the modules. A full-blown program with a nice UI and cool features is more work, but it would work from the get-go.

So, has anyone already written one? Using Super Search I found POP3 Email which i bogusware, and lots of false hits.

—John

In reply to Wanted: POP3 Client in Perl by John M. Dlugosz

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