Hello, all. I have a small mailing list whose entries I wish to archive on a website as soon as they come in. Here's the code I'm using at the moment:

    my $entry;
    if ($mail->header("Content-Type") =~ /plain/) {
    logtext("Plain text. Marking up.");
        my $conv = new HTML::TextToHTML();
        $entry = $conv->process_para($mail->body);
    } else {                    
        logtext("Not plain text. Scrubbing.");
        my $scrubber = HTML::Scrubber->new( allow => [ qw[ p b i u hr 
+br ] ] );
        $entry = $scrubber->scrub($mail->body);
    }

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This solution works pretty well for most mails (list members either send from Hotmail accounts or use plain text), but for HTML mails sent from Outlook Express it fails completely. I end up with '=3D' and '=20' at the end of every line. Should I write code to deal with this as a special case or has someone already solved this problem?

In reply to Sanitising email for posting on website by Jobby

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